Photo credit: Right, Jason Hosking; top left, Nina Van Lier
Photo credit: Right, Jason Hosking; top left, Nina Van Lier

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Restoration planning

These resources will help you work through the complexity of planning your restoration project.

Photo credit: Right, Jason Hosking; top left, Nina Van Lier

 

Before starting a restoration project, you need to have a good idea of what you want to achieve. To help plan your project, we have developed Te Haumanu Taiao: Restoring the natural environment in Tāmaki Makaurau which covers:

  • Mana whenua perspectives on restoration and how to engage and work with them
  • Setting a vision, goals, and objectives
  • Planning, species selection and plant numbers
  • Monitoring
  • Paying for your restoration project
  • A handy planning checklist
  • Ecosystem-specific restoration guidelines
  • Helpful glossaries and additional info

Start with these resources

October 2023

Te Haumanu Taiao: Restoring the natural environment in Tāmaki Makaurau

A guide for anyone undertaking restoration in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland to achieve their ecological restoration goals and to further enable the biodiversity of our region to heal and flourish.

PDF download 13.5 MB

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Upper Harbour Pest Management Strategy

This strategy provides guidance to the Upper Harbour community on how to prioritise and plan community-led animal pest-control projects and plant pest-control projects. These projects will help protect and restore native biodiversity in the area.

Upper Harbour Ecological Connectivity Strategy

The Upper Harbour ecological connectivity strategy provides Local board specific landscape-scale ecological restoration guidance and recommendations.

QEII Native Forest Restoration Guide

Tim Porteous' practical guide for landowners.

PDF download 12 MB

Bush restoration guide

Restoration planning guidance for bush restoration projects.

Restoration planning for coastal dune ecosystems

Considerations of dune restoration projects by the Coastal Restoration Trust of New Zealand.

QEII National Trust Covenant Document template

A template of a typical QEII covenant document.

Restoration plan examples

The Nature Space website holds a number of restoration plans for your reference.

Restoration case studies

NZPCN examples of excellent restoration planning in New Zealand.

Ecological restoration on mainland New Zealand

This DOC paper discusses how to move from successful restoration of islands to ecosystem restoration on mainland New Zealand.

Society for Ecological Restoration

News and resources from the international restoration community.

What is ecological restoration

A useful Waikato Regional Council resource that defines ecological restoration.

PDF download 300 KB

Restoration plan template

Nature Space simple restoration plan template to get you started.

PDF download 158 KB

Habitat Protection Fund (HPF) restoration plan template

WWF's restoration plan template for HPF projects.

PDF download 38 KB

Our wetland restoration plan

A restoration plan template for wetlands created by Waikato Regional Council.

Restoration of aquatic ecosystems in New Zealand

A NIWA project that aims to increase our knowledge of aquatic ecosystems and their restoration, and apply this to degraded streams, rivers, lakes and estuaries.

Guidelines to the development and monitoring of ecological restoration programmes

DOC guidelines for maximising the effectiveness of restoration programmes.

PDF download 396 KB

A review of community environmental groups’ restoration objectives, activities and partnerships in New Zealand

Published research into restoration group activity across New Zealand in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology.

PDF download 586 KB

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

The New Zealand Journal of Ecology is a peer-reviewed journal publishing ecological research relevant to Aotearoa / New Zealand and the South Pacific.

Volunteering in Community Parks

A guide for volunteers working in local parks

PDF download 1.28 MB

4 May 2021

Ecological Connectivity Roadmap - Rodney East

This roadmap aims to identify gaps and evaluate opportunities to protect, enhance, connect, and extend existing valuable habitats to create functional networks of green spaces in Rodney East.

PDF download 19 MB

Community project guidelines

Guidelines for running successful community conservation projects.

Protecting and restoring our natural heritage

A practical and comprehensive guide to planning and managing restoration projects.