Restoring ecosystems to boost biodiversity is an urgent priority--an 'Eco-index' can guide the way

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by Kiri Joy Wallace, John Reid and Penny Payne , The Conversation

Biodiversity continues to decline globally, but nowhere is the loss more pronounced than in Aotearoa New Zealand, which has the highest proportion of threatened indigenous species in the world.

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Planning large-scale biodiversity restoration projects—whether they're run by NGOs, governments or Indigenous groups—requires high-quality data.

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The Eco-index Ecosystem Restoration Map provides New Zealand's first public, open-access digital tool in this area. It aims to address information gaps in biodiversity restoration, and to show users which native ecosystems are appropriate to reconstruct in any given catchment area.

It also shows where the highest restoration priorities are—such as in areas with very low native ecosystem cover. And it allows anyone to view the restoration targets for each native ecosystem in any catchment.

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https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ecosystems-boost-biodiversity-urgent-priorityan.amp

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1. Those seem like decent applications for ai & remote-sensing

Am I missing something or is 10% cover still not a lot? I would not have guessed that NZ had the highest proportion of threatened species in the world? Or is it more that they monitor and take these things more seriously than some countries I wonder?

K& R -thanks for posting .