Freshwater and Marine at DOC Lian Butcher Director Aquatic

1. Freshwater and Marine at DOC Lian Butcher Director Aquatic

2. Overarching drivers for our freshwater work • National-scale freshwater reforms • Minister of Conservation has priority to improve freshwater habitats and to ensure conservation values are appropriately considered in policy development • DOC has been given a contingency budget for biodiversity giving possibility to scale up our freshwater capability • DOC has stretch goals of restoring 50 freshwater ecosystems from mountains to the sea, and enhancing the populations of 90% of our threatened species. • At Risk catchments

3. What this means for DOC? • Clear on our freshwater role at DOC • Clear on our priority outcomes • Focus on partnerships

4. Enhancing biodiversity by protecting and restoring freshwater ecosystems • Protection and sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems • Managing invasive species and pests • Freshwater habitat restoration • Threatened species management • Management of freshwater species for harvest • Partnership with iwi

5. DOC’s freshwater toolkit • National policy and legislation • Managing public conservation land • Partnerships • Operations – our boots on the ground • Conservation advocacy • Statutory advocacy • Science and technical expertise and Mātauranga Māori

7. Freshwater partnerships • At Risk Catchments • Other catchment/site based work • Biodiversity science input and operations • RMA Cycle • Monitoring/big data opportunities • Conservation advocacy

8. Marine work • Forming a marine strategy • Bycatch work to ramp up – Anipodean Albatross, Hoiho, Sealions, Maui/Hectors, Seabirds • Marine protected areas • Science proposal being developed for marine mammal protection

9. Marine opportunities • Marine habitat classification and mapping • Marine monitoring

10. Thank you