Overview
Many community-led conservation projects are operated through conservation trusts including rivercare groups, regional councils (in Canterbury this is Environment Canterbury or ECan), and the Department of Conservation (DOC), often in conjunction with research programmes through universities including Otago, Canterbury, and Lincoln universities, Crown Research Institutes such as Landcare Research, and environmental consultancy firms such as Boffa Miskell and Wildlife Management International Limited.
If you are interested in helping, please see the different organisations and groups in the menu.
Specific conservation work and projects are also listed on the individual river, ecology, and threats pages.
Additional Resources
- (DOC) Braided river fact sheet
- Like to know about braided river conservation laws and policies? See our resources page.
- Want to identify a bird on a braided river? Download this 4-page DOC guide.
- Need educational materials?
- Need signs? We can help with that!
- Want to help with springtime river-bird surveys? Sign up to our newsletter and we’ll send the dates and location as soon as they become available for each river
- Partnering with stakeholders including landowners, commercial river users such as jetboat operators and gravel extractors