The goal of the Biodiversity programme is to retain, restore and enhance the our natural biodiversity in high value and high priority areas of the region.

This goal will be achieved through a targeted combination of assessment, planning, increasing capability, voluntary conservation agreements and stewardship incentives, on-ground actions and ongoing learning/monitoring.

The focus of this program is on regional-scale terrestrial activities: planning, the protection of high priority species and habitats, and landscape-scale restoration and protection of habitat connectivity.