Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the combination of all living things in a place. It includes birds and insects, microbes, fungi and plants, people and their pets, and even farm animals. Although lots of new species have been introduced (such as possums, rhododendrons, varoa mite and didymo) the native birds and plants that make the Wellington Region distinctive are becoming rarer. This is known as biodiversity loss.
Everyone can do something to help protect our native biodiversity whether it be planting a native plant in your garden, keeping your cat indoors from dusk to dawn or trapping pests such as rats, possums or stoats.
The pages in this section provide you with more information about what you can do to help, and provide links to other sources of information.