Case Study: New Zealand Department of Conservation (Ngā Whenua Rāhui) achieves faster, cost-saving biodiversity monitoring with Trimble TerraFlex

Biodiversity Monitoring For Conservation in New Zealand

Ngā Whenua Rāhui, a unit of New Zealand’s Department of Conservation that helps Māori landowners protect indigenous biodiversity, faced the challenge of collecting varied monitoring data across remote and diverse sites. Field teams of up to nine staff needed flexible data forms that could be changed per project, reliable offline data collection for long stints in the field, and a way to eliminate slow, error-prone manual data entry.

The unit adopted Trimble TerraFlex, a mobile geospatial data‑collection app that lets teams create and update project-specific forms, collect data offline, and sync to the cloud when connected. The change delivered faster results to landowners so they can act sooner, cut data‑entry labor (about 20 person‑days saved in six months), lowered operating costs and freed more budget for conservation.

New Zealand Department of Conservation

Roland Pomana

Business Analyst for the Unit