Tagged: land use change

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NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 06, 2018 •

Robert McLachlan, Massey University and Steven Alexander Trewick, Massey University The recently released 2018 Living Planet report is among the most comprehensive global analyses of biodiversity yet. It is based on published data on 4,000 out of the 70,000 known species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Rather than listing species that have gone … Read More

How much dairying is too much in terms of water quality? - Waiology

Waiology • Dec 17, 2013 •

By Daniel Collins On 21 November the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, released her second report on water quality. It warned that business-as-usual dairy expansion by 2020 would leave our lakes and rivers more degraded than they are now, even with improved mitigation. I’d now like to re-cap what the report concluded, how it got there, … Read More

From “swamps” to “wetlands”: The transformation of wetlands as both conceptual and physical landscapes - Waiology

Waiology • Jan 28, 2013 •

By Catherine Knight The boardwalk through the wetland at Papaitonga, south of Levin, Horowhenua (photo: C. Knight). Through time, not only has our environment been transformed, but also the way we perceive it and the words we use to describe it. No example illustrates this better than the “swamp” to “wetland” transformation. When European settlement of New Zealand began … Read More