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Measuring and Reporting on Effectiveness – New Zealand
Experiences
Department of ConservationTe Papa Atawhai
Hugh LoganDirector General,Department of Conservation, New Zealand World Parks Congress, Durban, September 2003
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Five Main Points
1. Context: New Zealand’s ecology is unusual and relatively well protected;
2. Primary focus of measurement is to improve management;
3. Secondary focus is information for reporting;
4. World Heritage Area reporting is based on information used only for reporting;
5. Learning about management effectiveness is a long and continuing process.
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Here’s our place
1. Context: New Zealand’s ecology is unusual
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Split from Gondwana - 65 million years isolated development
Mammals not present
Birds filled all major niches
Ancient forests evolved slowly
One of the 25 biodiversity hot spots
Evolution in Isolation
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New Zealand was the last major land mass settled by humans
The impact on indigenous ecosystems has been a disaster
NZ’sIntroduced
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Forest before PolynesianSettlement
Forest at EuropeanSettlement
Forest today
Forest before European settlement
100
80
60
40
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1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 AD
%
% animal species
% Forest
Loss of indigenous species & forest cover
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• 8.3 million hectares• 14 National Parks• 15 Marine Reserves• 68 Conservation Parks• 3 World Heritage Areas one
of which is both a cultural and natural heritage site
Protected areas are about 30% of the land area but less than 1% of the marine
Context: New Zealand’s ecology is unusual and relatively well protected
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2. Primary focus of measurement is to improve management
• Major effort to improve measurement with the Department
• Traditional focus has been reporting on what we do (outputs)
• Now moving to measure what is being achieved (outcomes) – the changes in the health of ecosystems and species
• This is much harder
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3. Secondary focus is information for reporting
• Information for reporting still tends to drive our processes – to Parliament, other government and international agencies
• There is a tension between meeting the reporting need and collecting information for management needs
• It is often said that this should not be so, but the needs of managers and external agencies are different
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4. WHA reporting is based on information used only for reporting
• WHA reporting is too coarse-grained to contribute to our management information needs.
• We do it because we recognise the external reporting is of value, but it is an additional task
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5. Learning about our management effectiveness is a long process
• We are making good progress on improving measurement
• We recognise that this takes time and investment in systems and capacity
• For example: We can now report on the extent to which different kinds of ecosystems are protected
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• As a surrogate for outcomes reporting we are also reporting on the efforts we are making and providing examples of site and species-specific condition to describe what is being achieved
• Over the next 3-5 years we will be able to report more comprehensively on the states of Environments and Species and how these states are changing
• We will follow a similar path in reporting on freshwater and marine ecosystems, albeit more slowly
Becoming more comprehensive
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In Summary: 5 Main Points
• New Zealand’s ecology is unusual and relatively well protected – main issue is the decline in ecosystem health;
• Primary focus of measurement is to improve management;
• Secondary focus is information for reporting;• World Heritage Area reporting
does not assist our management work;
• Learning about changing ecosystem condition andmanagement effectivenessis a long and continuingprocess.