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Mitigation
Manaaka Whenua
There are more than 40 known and developing mitigation actions that go beyond industry good practice to reduce contaminants entering our waterways. These resources can help you identify and target appropriate mitigations, and discover new research on possible outcomes when they are applied.
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Guidance
Excluding stock from smaller streams
This factsheet is for farmers, industry bodies and regional authorities developing regional freshwater policy. Most of the contaminant load in waterways across New Zealand originates…
Journal Article
Co-benefits and trade-offs of water quality mitigation measures on greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand dairy systems
As part of government climate change policy, New Zealand dairy farmers will be encouraged to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through a proposed pricing…
Video
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions webinar
This webinar explains an interactive WebApp that helps detect improvements in rivers, lakes and groundwater, and helps select appropriate monitoring technologies that enable early detection…
Interactive Tool
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions Webapp
These WebApp tools will help freshwater stewards and kaitiaki decide what to measure, where, when, with what technology, and understand how much it will cost.…
Technical Report
Evaluation of Cow Collar Technology
Cow collars, including ear tags and boluses and tags with similar functions, are recent technologies which provide cow health and reproductive monitoring to improve livestock…
Guidance
A practical guide for using green crops in New Zealand
This guidebook aims to make it easier for NZ farmers to use green crops more confidently and effectively. Doing so will improve nutrient creation and…
Video
Using green crops for soil fertility and health
These video resources have been created to make it easier for NZ farmers to use green crops more confidently and effectively. Doing so will improve…
Journal Article
Monitoring to detect changes in water quality to meet policy objectives
Detecting change in water quality is key to providing evidence of progress towards meeting water quality objectives. A key measure for detecting change is statistical…
Technical Report
Learning from Farmers: On-farm emissions reductions
There is a growing emphasis on environmental sustainability within food and fibre systems, both in New Zealand and globally. This is reflected in government regulations,…
Journal Article
Trusted storytellers as freshwater restoration knowledge brokers: individual and collective voices can both be effective
Aotearoa New Zealand’s aquatic ecosystems are declining despite widespread awareness of mitigation needs. This study employs storytelling to address this issue, testing the role of…
Summary
More Investment in Water Quality Monitoring is Needed
Aotearoa will not know if our water quality is improving for another 20 years unless we make a large investment in our water quality monitoring…
Journal Article
A review of the development and implementation of the critical source area concept: A reflection of Andrew Sharpley’s role in improving water quality
Critical source areas (CSAs) are small areas of a field, farm, or catchment that account for most contaminant loss by having both a high contaminant…