Lau­rence Barea has started a new dis­cus­sion in the BBOP NO Net Loss Dis­cus­sion Group on LinkedIn to announce that the Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion of the New Zealand Gov­ern­ment has issued a Guid­ance on Good Prac­tice Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting in New Zealand, called “the Guidance” 😉

The New Zealand Gov­ern­ment released its Good Prac­tice Guid­ance on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting on the 7th of August. This non-statutory guid­ance is the result of a 3 year Cross Gov­ern­ment Depart­ment Research Pro­gramme that inves­ti­gated off­set­ting con­cepts and approaches in New Zealand. The guid­ance draws heav­ily from the BBOP guid­ance and places it in a New Zealand con­text, where in most cases, bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting is a vol­un­tary offering.

Here’s the link to the dis­cus­cion (to join the dis­cus­sion you need to become mem­ber of the group): https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=5078805&type=member&item=5904779000613449732&qid=ee0a2f42-bffb-4cc1-9ea7-5e417bfe536d&trk=groups_most_recent-0-b-ttl&goback=.gmr_5078805

To directly access the guid­ance as pdf, please visit http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/our-work/biodiversity-offsets/the-guidance.pdf

You can find some infor­ma­tion on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets on this page of the Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion: http://www.doc.govt.nz/biodiversity-offsetting and a lot of addi­tional mate­r­ial here: http://www.doc.govt.nz/about-doc/policies-and-plans/guidance-on-biodiversity-offsetting/