Plants and trees along the water margins and banks are called riparian vegetation. A riparian buffer zone is a vegetated strip of land along the margins of a waterway. Riparian vegetation provides a ...

Kaitiaki Tools were developed to assist people involved in the resource consent process and focusses on the potential impact of land-use change or point source discharges on freshwater mahinga kai.

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Stormwater management is recognised by the Ministry for the Environment as a local government service that is potentially at risk from climate change and may need adaptation. In regions where the ...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New ...

E ngā matāwaka, tēnei te mihi atu a NIWA ki a koutou e noho mai nā i tēnā koko, i tērā koko o te whenua o Aotearoa. Climate has always been important for Māori. It affects natural environmental ...

NIWA Weather is NIWA's public facing weather forecasting website. You'll find 2-day, hour-by-hour forecasts for 49 locations across Aotearoa New Zealand. The site also has forecast videos hosted by ...

Ocean acidification conditions around the New Zealand coast are being measured to establish baseline conditions and to quantify future change. As the oceans take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, ...

The abundance and diversity of life in our rivers, lakes and estuaries is the ultimate indicator of the health and wellbeing of our aquatic ecosystems. NIWA is helping to ensure that New Zealand’s ...

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We can supply a wide range of weather or climate monitoring instruments from single parameter sensors to fully equipped and installed climate stations. NIWA operates over a hundred Electronic Weather ...

How healthy is your stream? SHMAK - the New Zealand Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit - has been designed to help you find out. NIWA’s Stream Health Monitoring Assessment Kit (SHMAK) gives ...