The Catchment Group Toolkit

Build your Catchment Group Toolkit with resources from Our Land and Water and NZ Landcare Trust. Below you will find links to practical tools and resources to support your catchment group journey, from starting out to advancing to the long game.

Just starting out

You can see a clear need to improve your catchment area and have the will to enact change. Let’s help you find the way. Tools for your toolkit:

• Should our group be an incorporated society? 6pp PDF
• Community Catchment Management PDF booklet, 36pp
• How to Start a Catchment Group A4 PDF
• Native Fish Fact Sheet A4 PDF, 18pp

Up and running

Your catchment group is now established and has some credible projects lined up. What’s next? Tools for your toolkit:

• Catchment Journey Template you can download as Powerpoint or use collaboratively via Google Slides
• Healthy Waterways website to register river restoration actions
• Designing Effective Farm Environment Plans A4 PDF, 8pp
• LandscapeDNA website to help you understand your land
• Actions to Include in a Farm Environment Plan interactive infographic
• Finding out about stream health for themselves article, A4 PDF, 3pp

Well established

Restoring health to freshwater bodies requires sustained effort and coordinating the actions of individual land users and catchment groups. Is your catchment group ready for the long game? Tools for your toolkit:

• Where next for catchment groups? A summary A4 PDF, 4pp
• Designing Freshwater Monitoring Programmes to Detect Early Improvement A4 PDF, 8pp summary
• Mai te rangi ki te whenua, Mai te whenua ki te rangi A4 PDF, 52pp report to support engagement with tangata whenua
• Tīmata Method for Establishing Native Forest farmer fact sheet, 6pp PDF
• Data Supermarket platform for discovering feasible land use opportunities at the catchment and regional scale