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Braided rivers 2026 conference presentations

Thanks to this year’s sponsors:

Waitaha Action to Impact Fund
and

artist Iain Cheeseman

  • Click presentation titles to download the PDF
  • Click presenters’ names to see a short biography

Video recordings of presentations will be coming soon, aiming for 16 July but I will notify via our newsletter.

 

Embracing the Braid – Evolution of Flood Protection in Canterbury  (PDF)

Amy‑Grace McIlraith &
Shaun McCracken | ECan

 
 

All the diversity that you haven’t seen yet in the Upper Waitaki Basin (PDF)

Jennifer Schori &  Samantha Turner | DOC

The braided river bird count database: the value of long-term monitoring (PDF)

Anne Schlesslemann | Bioeconomy Science 

 

All speakers Q&A

 

Waimakariri River Birds (PDF)

Greg Stanley  |  ECan

Banded Dotterels – A Longitudinal Coastal Study (PDF)

Ailsa Howard  |  F&B

 

 

The potential effects of photovoltaic solar farms on water birds in Aotearoa  (PDF)

Colin O’Donnell  |  DOC

 

 

Managing feral cats on the Ashley Rakahuri River (PDF)

Sarah Edwards & Sze-Wing Yiu  | Bioeconomy Science

 

 

All speakers Q&A

 

Testing the welfare performance of kill traps (PDF)

Grant Morriss |  Bioeconomy Science

 

 

What’s for dinner? Monitoring invertebrate availability in braided river ecosystems (PDF)

Vikki Smith  |  Wildlands 

 

 

Lessons learned from using Thermal Camera in both Braided Rivers and elsewhere (PDF)

Ted Howard

 

 

The little/German owl—another braided river bird predator (PDF)

Grant Davey & Emily Wium  |  ARRG

 

 

Case studies of AI by the Ashley Rakahuri Rivercare Group (PDF)

Grant Davey  |  ARRG

 

 

Developing best practice guidelines for the conservation of the black-fronted tern | tarapirohe in Aotearoa New Zealand (PDF)

Nick Ledgard  |  BRaid

 

 

All speakers Q&A