Subject Guides: Sustainability: Environmental: Websites

Government websites

Department of Conservation
Contains information about the protection of New Zealand's natural and historic heritage, how and where you can enjoy public conservation places and how to get involved in conservation.
Land Information New Zealand
A New Zealand government department responsible for land titles, geodetic and cadastral survey systems, topographic information, hydrographic information, managing Crown property and a variety of other functions.
Level (NZ) - the authority on sustainable building
Level will help you design and build homes which have less impact on the environment and are healthier, more comfortable, and have lower running costs.
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
A crown research institute dedicated to improving the measurement, management and protection of New Zealand’s terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity, including those in the conservation estate;
Achieve the sustainable use of land resources and their ecosystem services across catchments and sectors; Improve the measurement and mitigation of greenhouse gases from the terrestrial biosphere.
Increase the ability of New Zealand industries and organisations to develop within environmental limits and meet market and community requirements.
Ministry for the Environment
Information about the environment, climate and sustainability.
Statistics NZ - Environment
Environment statistics report on the state of New Zealand's environment. They also explore how our economy and environment interact.

Environmental agencies

Maurice White Native Forest Trust - Regenerating native forest

Only "Fools and Dreamers" is a film about the regeneration of a native forest reserve on Banks Peninsula by Maurice White and Hugh Wilson called Hinewai Reserve. Wilson never uses vehicles so truly lives sustainably and controversially uses the protective and nitrogen fixing properties of gorse to help regenerate native bush. In so doing, he allows nature to plant the forest back. Watch this film to see how Hugh Wilson lives and breathes sustainable best practices and how we can make a difference in our own patch.

Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury is the promotional name for the Canterbury Regional Council, an elected body of fourteen councilors.
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world.
Forest and Bird
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand is New Zealand's largest national conservation organisation.
GreenPeace
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation focusing on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.
Panda (World Wildlife Fund - WWF)
A global organisation halting the accelerating destruction of our natural world.

Māori and the Environmental sustainability - Whanake taiao

Image: Ngāi Tahu retrieved from https://ngaitahu.iwi.nz/our_stories/16408/

Climate change business opportunities for Māori land and Māori organisations
Indigenous Māori knowledge and perspectives of ecosystems
This journal article presents a framework/model based on Māori knowledge, values and perspectives is presented by Garth Harmsworth and Shaun Awatere.
Māori and the environment
A number of articles from the environment foundation on Māori and biodiversity, commercial fishing and environmental law.
Māori relationship with the environment - Ministry for the Environment
Māori values and perspectives to inform collaborative processes and planning for freshwater management
Story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
From Te Ara: Encyclopedia of New Zealand
A Tangata Whenua Perspective on Sustainability using the Mauri Model
This paper provides an enhanced understanding of the concept of Mauri, the basis of Tangata Whenua traditional belief and practice in relation to the environment. This understanding is then aligned with
contemporary resource management thinking using the Mauri Model. Two examples are provided illustrating how the Mauri Model can be applied to contemporary resource management decision making.
Te Tai Ao - natural environment research projects
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is a Centre of Research Excellence, which undertakes and invests in research concerning the needs and opportunities arising in Māori communities. This link goes to research on: Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment
Using mātauranga Māori to inform freshwater management

Sustainability: Environmental: Websites

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Government websites

Environmental agencies

Maurice White Native Forest Trust - Regenerating native forest

Māori and the Environmental sustainability - Whanake taiao