LAWA: Actions for Healthy Waterways

The ‘Actions for Healthy Waterways’ topic on the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) website presents the land management actions that New Zealanders have taken throughout the country to restore water quality in rivers, lakes, wetlands, and estuaries.

It features data and stories from the Healthy Waterways Register, which was developed with the input of ecologists and knowledge brokers from the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge.

The Healthy Waterways Register is a secure portal for all passionate groups and individuals to record their stories and data covering riparian planting, stock exclusion, erosion control, and wetland protection.

The LAWA topic tracks progress and collates these land management efforts, presenting them online at a catchment scale with additional context to be accessed through an interactive national map or regional navigation.

LAWA encourages New Zealanders to explore ‘Actions for Healthy Waterways’ to find examples of restoration efforts and contribute their data and stories through the Healthy Waterways Register.