Peter Bellingham from #ManaakiWhenua, NZ's environmental research institute, is working with Dept. of Conservation & Ministry for the Environment on #BiodiversityMonitoring in #NZ, to meet our global commitments to reduce #biodiversity loss.

In a seminar, Peter noted we need national environmental monitoring standards and funding. "Long-term monitoring is not well supported in this country." "We've been in the business of opportunistic cobbling together of data for some time."