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August 30, 2024
Resources for
Catchment Groups
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Catchment groups can create thriving rural communities, safe havens for native fish and birds, and cleaner water for the next generation. These practical tools and resources can help your group work together to add diversity and tackle environmental challenges for your catchment and community.
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Guidance
What You Can Do In Your Catchment
A catchment, or whaitua, is an area of land where rain flows into a common river, lake or other body of water. A healthy water…
Video
Physiographics in the Waituna catchment
The Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research project, part of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, describes how the physiographics approach has been…
Guidance
Heartland Strong: How Rural New Zealand can Change and Thrive
This book, based on years of research, shows how, and provides useful insights into, the ongoing process of change in rural communities and the resources…
Guidance
Think ‘Outside the Room’ When Collaborating with Community
Involving small groups of community members in local government decisions doesn’t mean the wider community will trust those decisions. Increasing trust may require engagement with…
Summary
Assessing the Effectiveness of On-Farm Mitigation Actions
This research summary describes how effective on-farm mitigations have been so far, by comparing losses of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sediment in 1995 and…
Journal Article
Demonstrating efficacy of on-land management actions to improve water quality: How can we quantify what actions have been done?
We reviewed 91 global publications and proceedings between 1989 and 2019 which assessed the complexities related to recording and reporting sustainable land use actions with…
Interactive Tool
Map of Total Nitrogen Excess and Reduction Potential
An interactive map shows the total nitrogen (TN) in excess of current national rules and the potential for mitigation strategies to reduce TN losses from…
Video
More diverse, resilient, healthy landscapes by 2030 – webinar
Farmers, growers and all those who care for our land want to help build a resilient, healthy and thriving agri-food and fibre system. The role…
Summary
Quantifying Excess Nitrogen Loads in Fresh Water
At least 43% of New Zealand’s agricultural land (31% of New Zealand’s total land area) is in catchments that are under pressure (‘pressure’ meaning the…
Video
What the data tells us about our water
By bringing together multiple data sources, we can now see which catchments are under the most pressure, and whether applying all known and emerging on-farm…
Video
What Do Rural Communities Have On Their Minds When Discussing Land Management Actions That Help Improve Water Quality?
This presentation was winner of the People’s Choice Award at the New Zealand Hydrological Society Conference 2020. I am a freshwater ecologist and science communicator…
Video
Connecting communities for effective farm plans – webinar
Land use intensification and the degradation of water quality was enabled by a system that considered all farms separately, despite their cumulative effects on water…