Library of resources: Laws, Acts, Policies, Plans, websites where you can ID plants and animals etc etc
Most pages on this website feature a ‘resources and reference’ section at the bottom of each page. We recommend checking those pages, first, as this page contains limited material.
Please note: these lists are not definitive. Laws, Acts, Management Plans, and Implementation Plans are often updated and changed.
For additions and amendments, or to notify us of broken links, please contact manager@braid.org.nz.
DOC & ECan braided river projects and management plans
- DOC – page on this website with more details
- DOC – Conservation strategy for New Zealand braided rivers: biodiversity values, issues and priority actions
- DOC – Project River Recovery – upper Waitaki (includes links to extensive research projects relevant to other braided rivers)
- DOC – Interactive Estuaries website – great resource for where to see birds
- ECan – page on this website with more details
- ECan – Our wetlands
- ECan – Biodiversity Funding
- ECan – Canterbury Land & Water Regional Plan
- ECan – River plans and bi-laws
- ECan – Waimakariri River Regional Park
- As part of the CWMS several programmes are being undertaken in the upper Rangitata, Rakaia, and Clarence Rivers and the lower Waitaki River. The Braided Rivers – ECan regional funding Annual Report (September 2017-2018 ) is available here.
Because of the threats to braided rivers, under ECan, the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS) aims to halt the decline through its targets and goals with its focus on the integration of water and land management including the protection of indigenous biodiversity and water quality. This is also integrated with the practice of kaitiakitanga or guardianship by Ngāi Tahu which applies to the ecological health of all waterways including wetlands. Under the Strategy, 10 Zone Committees have been set up to develop Zone Implementation Plans for water management in Canterbury.
IWI management plans
- Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura Environmental Management Plan (2007) (incorporating Clarence and Waiau Rivers)
- Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan (incorporating Hurunui to Rakaia Rivers
- Iwi Management Plan of the Kati Huitapa (1992) Arowhenua (Rakaia to Waitaki Rivers)
Government Acts, Policies & Implementation Plans
- Wildlife Act 1953
- Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Act 2010
- Schedule 1 Vision and principles of Canterbury Water Management Strategy—Strategic Framework, November 2009 This is the section of the Act that specifies:
- The planning of natural water use is guided by the following: – first order priority considerations: the environment, customary uses, community supplies and stock water – second order priority considerations: irrigation, renewable electricity generation, recreation, tourism and amenity
- Schedule 1 Vision and principles of Canterbury Water Management Strategy—Strategic Framework, November 2009 This is the section of the Act that specifies:
- Part 3 Additional functions and powers of ECan after commencement day
- Ministry for the Environment freshwater portal (including 2020 updates and policies)
- Coastal Policy Statement 2010 (covers estuaries, which are not covered under Freshwater Management)
- Water conservation orders
- Coastal Hazards and Climate Change – A Guidance Manual for Local Government in New Zealand 2017
- LINZ (Land and Information New Zealand)
- Guideline for accretion claims http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/20711
- Guideline for dry stream or riverbed claims : http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/linzg20710
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Standard for title adjustments arising from water boundary changes http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/20005
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- Part 4 Functions, powers, and duties of central and local government
- Part 3 Duties and Restrictions under this Act
- (13) River and Lake Beds
- (14) Water
- (15) Discharges
- (17) Adverse EffectsResource Management Act 1991 – main (but by no means only) policies under the Act relating to braided rivers
- Part 9 Water conservation orders
Identifying plants, animals, and fungi
- iNaturalist: ID just about anything, record your own observation, set up your own project.
- What pest animal is that? http://www.pestdetective.org.nz
- What bird is that? http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz
- Ebird: http://ebird.org
- What fungi is that? www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/fungi
- Fungi ID www.hiddenforest.co.nz
- What plant is that? New Zealand Plant Conservation Network: http://nzpcn.org.nz
- What are those bugs in the soil? http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/index.php
- What bug is that? www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/animals/bug-id/what-is-this-bug
- What insect & spider is that? www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/teaching/Insects-and-spiders
- What weavil is that? www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/plants-animals-fungi/animals/invertebrates/systematics/weevils
- What fish is that? www.niwa.co.nz/freshwater-and-estuaries/
- What sea creature is that? New Zealand Marine Life (free application): https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=661468952&mt=8
- Fishbase – global fish database: www.fishbase.org/search.php
- What grass is that? https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/plants/grass-key
- NZ eflora: http://www.nzflora.info/index.html
- Australasian Virtual Herbarium: https://avh.chah.org.au/
- Ngā Tipu Whakaoranga / Māori Plant Use Database http://maoriplantuse.landcareresearch.co.nz/WebForms/PeoplePlantInformation.aspx
Biodiversity & threatened species
- Canterbury Biodiversity: http://ecan.govt.nz/advice/biodiversity/Pages/Default.aspx
- New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy: www.biodiversity.govt.nz
- New Zealand Threat Classification System – lists all threatened and endangered species in NZ: http://www.doc.govt.nz/about-us/science-publications/conservation-publications/nz-threat-classification-system/
- Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua: www.landcareresearch.co.nz/home
- Canterbury coastal list of native plants: www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-plants/motukarara-nursery/coastal.pdf
- Canterbury plains list of native plants: www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-plants/motukarara-nursery/canterbury-plains.pdf
- Canterbury sub-alpine list of native plants: www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-plants/motukarara-nursery/subalpine.pdf
- Canterbury foothills list of native plants: www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-plants/motukarara-nursery/foothills.pdf
Water
- Braided Rivers: www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/native-animals/birds/life-on-a-braided-river
- Canterbury wetland and river/stream margin list of native plants: www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-plants/motukarara-nursery/wetland.pdf
- Water quality: https://www.mfe.govt.nz/fresh-water
- Online guide to water quality: www.lawa.org.nz
- Working Waters Trust: http://workingwaterstrust.org
Conservation
- Department of Conservation: www.doc.govt.nz
- DOC training courses: https://www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/training/field-based-courses/
- Nature Space – promote your conservation project: http://www.naturespace.org.nz
- Bring on the Birds, Gore Bay Ratepayers Association: demeters@xtra.co.nz
- EnviroSchools: www.enviroschools.org.nz
- Dunes Restoration Trust: www.dunestrust.org.nz
- Environmental Protection Authority: www.epa.govt.nz
- Weedbusters: www.weedbusters.co.nz
- Landcare Research Pest Management: www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/pests
- Monarch Butterfly Trust: www.monarch.org.nz/monarch
- Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment: www.pce.parliament.nz/publications/all-publications
- 1080 Facts: www.1080facts.co.nz
- QEII National Trust – protect you land with a covenant: www.openspace.org.nz
- Edge of Existence: www.edgeofexistence.org
- NZ Fish Passage Advisory Group – information on fish passage management: http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/habitats/freshwater/fish-passage-management