The second biennial survey of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken in February 2002. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response model of state of the environment reporting. ...

New Zealand has a very large number of threatened and endangered species. The resources available to tackle the challenges of managing biodiversity are limited. The efforts applied, have to date proved insufficient to ...

New Zealand has several systems in place to prevent entry, eradicate, contain, provide surveillance of weeds. The success of those efforts is far less than some of us hope for and the numbers of naturalised weedy plants, ...

Opinions run hot on the future management of New Zealand’s marine recreational fisheries. There is much at stake. Recreational fishers spend about one billion dollars a year targeting the five most commonly caught marine ...

In New Zealand it is increasingly recognised, including by government, that water resource allocation and water quality are issues of national importance. Agriculture is frequently portrayed by public media as a major ...

The Falcons for Grapes project began in late 2005. The aims of this project have been twofold – to establish a colony of threatened NZ native falcons in vineyards, and to reduce bird damage to grapes using an established natural ...

This research estimates the commercial costs and benefits associated with selected aquaculture projects in the Canterbury region. Mussel farming employment will most likely be generated in coastal communities that at present ...

The growth in number of parks is a manifestation of a New Zealand approach to conservation – assessment of areas as having conservation merit, are often followed by public purchase and management for conservation and ...

There seems plenty of evidence that human induced climate change is occurring. If the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continues to increase for the next few decades it seems highly likely there will be ...

EIANZ in 2007 released a blueprint for environmental practitioners entitled ‘Meeting the Challenges of the Future’. Three sets of actions were listed as forming the basis for the Blueprint, including – ‘Improve the ...