Tagged: coasts

Thinking about water in Auckland - Waiology

Waiology • Apr 02, 2013 •

• Auckland,
• coasts,
• Water governance

By Roger Bannister When most people think of Auckland they think of the metropolitan areas, a city containing a third of New Zealand’s population. In fact the Auckland region is a predominantly rural landscape, with rural land uses accounting for 90% of the land area. The contrast of concentrated population and rural activities – horticulture, pastoral farming plantation forestry … Read More

The state of Canterbury’s coastal wetland vegetation - Waiology

Waiology • Jan 29, 2013 •

• Canterbury,
• coasts,
• wetlands,
• World Wetlands Day

By Philip Grove Canterbury has a wide variety of wetland types in a range of landscapes from the mountains and high country through to the foothills, plains and the coast. The biological productivity of coastal wetlands and their ecological importance in the life cycles of many native fish and birds is well recognised. A national database of inland freshwater wetlands … Read More