Well I dunno about you, but policy can get a bit clunky for me, its a whole genre or language and I have to be in the mood to cope with it- so as usual I chuck my own spin, to keep a sense of humour in the policy speak bits.
The International Framework
Biodiversity talk comes from the United Nations Convention on Biodiveristy. You can catch up on the the history of the convention here http://www.cbd.int/history. Its pretty huge and pretty full on but basically about 170 odd countries ratified (agreed to) its text at the Earth Summit in Rio, in 1992.
Blah blah blah, so
Imagine if the CBD was a girl, a brazilian girl, now she'd be 21 years old. She's travelled to lots of places and has been well considered by heads of states. How they will protect her, how they will fight for her. She's probabaly done a bit of rebelling herself. Have we looked after her? Does she have fillings in her teeth, artificial nails and a string of broken relationships? Or is she a stunning diplomat, fluent in many languages, with thousands of followers on social media?
The New Zealand scenario
Now she has a younger half sibling in Aotearoa, The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy. He could be a bilingual Maori boy, he's about 13 years old now, born in 2000. He's got whanau obligations to his glorified older internationally travelled sister, but he's grounded in just about every government department in New Zealand. Do any of them care or do some have a way bigger stake than others? Well it turns out this munty big fund to fulfill the Country's obligations to the CBD, was set up by the government and the Government gives DOC most of it. Are they doing a good job? have they sorted out how article 8(j) applies to the intellectual property in the Wai262 claim? Have we lost any biodiversity in the last 21 years? Have we protected more areas...these are the questions. http://www.biodiversity.govt.nz/picture/doing/nzbs/index.html
OK...chop right down to the local level,
and now there is a draft Biodiversity Strategy, still in gesteation, thats to be born out of the Palmerston North City Council. http://www.pncc.govt.nz/media/2086423/draft_biodiversity_strategy_consultation_document_pdf_june_2013.pdf
Here Im wondering if the family is still related, or if they are- but they dont really know they are, dont really know their relations, or twice removed sorta thing.
Does the family need a reunion to really talk about their history and whakapapa. Will the new babay be a girl or a boy? The bookies are probably taking bets on the name; biodiversity or biological diversity, or will it be James?
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