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2024 braided rivers presentations

Thanks to this year’s sponsor:

Waitaha Action to Impact Fund

  Presentations

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  • Video presentations can also be seen on Youtube

Opening Address (audio only)

Nick Ledgard | BRaid

 A year in the life of the Rakahuri (PDF)

Gabrielle Huria | Te Kura Taka Pini

 Local movements of colony-based karoro/Southern black-backed gull (PDF)

Wendy Fox | Lincoln University

 Understanding the impacts of kāhu (Circus approximans), an aerial predator, on tarapirohe/black fronted terns (Chlidonias albostriatus) and other braided river bird species (PDF)

Biz Bell &  Samantha Ray | WMIL

Know your enemy: catchment-scale riverbed weed surveys to identify risks and prioritise actions (PDF)

Jaz Morris | Boffa Miskell

Makarora Braided River: spatial and temporal biodiversity distributions and interactions (PDF)

 Anthony Coote | Aspiring Biodiversity Trust

Shorebirds – Connecting places and people to maximise New Zealand’s national conservation efforts (PDF)

Emma Williams | DOC

Developing a braided river monitoring programme to measure extent and condition (PDF)

Helen Greenep | ECan

Impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on Hawke’s Bay braided river habitat and wading birds (PDF)

Warwick Allen |  Manaaki Whenua–Landcare Research

 Monthly bird surveys on Ashley-Rakahuri River, 2013-2023 (PDF)

Nick Ledgard | ARRG

Embracing river variability: Conservation at a landscape scale (PDF)

Holly Harris | University of Canterbury

Land-based invertebrate monitoring on Canterbury braided rivers (PDF)

Tara Murray | DOC

Stories from a braided river (PDF)

Grant Davey | ARRG