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August 30, 2024
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Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Tool for relating land use/management to sediment rating curve for the Manawatu catchment
Visual clarity of water is the distance (in metres) through water that objects can be seen. It is variable over time because it depends on…
Journal Article
Difficulties in using land use pressure and soil quality indicators to predict water quality
Land pressures and soil quality can influence local water quality. Land use, catchment and climatic factors were strong predictors of 15 years of water quality. A snapshot…
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Diverse Experiences of Farming – video
Massey University surveyed and interviewed over 1300 New Zealanders, and asked them – urban and rural people – what they really think about farming. The…
Summary
Project Summary: What are the Best Sediment Traps for my Hill Country Stream?
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three different sediment traps within the same…
Technical Report
Collective storytelling to improve freshwater ecosystem health through catchment community knowledge sharing
Water, the lifeblood of Aotearoa New Zealand, sustains our identity and wellbeing; nonetheless, freshwater environments (lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers) are significantly impacted by humans.…
Guidance
Guidance for Catchment Groups to Develop Farm Plans
Printable 4-step plan for catchment groups to develop effective farm plans (PDF, 1 page). To make farm plans an effective tool for improving waterways, we…
Technical Report
Faecal source tracking and the identification of naturalised Escherichia coli to assist with establishing water quality and faecal contamination levels
E. coli are routinely measured as faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to provide indications of microbial water quality in parallel with other physico-chemical parameters. Recent evidence…
Summary
Adapting land for a climate-changed future
Farmers are keen to understand the changing climate at a granular, local level and initiated this project looking at adaptation in mid-Canterbury. Farmers said it…
Journal Article
Growing for good: Producing a healthy, low greenhouse gas and water quality footprint diet in Aotearoa
Food production plays a central role in the health of humanity and our environment. New Zealand produces a large amount of food, but it is…
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