Diverting water away from its natural channel for commercial or private use.

How does urbanisation increase sediments in waterways?

We provide an overview of New Zealand climate data for use in school projects.

These gather top-quality data and are used throughout New Zealand in the National Climate Network.

Identifying biological factors that may be limiting fish numbers requires sampling to ensure that key invertebrate prey species are not scarce and that pest fish, especially predators, are not abundant.

Useful information and resources on New Zealand's marine flora and invertebrate fauna.

The largest member of the Galaxiidae family.

A habitat is an environment or place where animals normally live.

Opportunities for students

In this climate education resource, you can download this climate summary in a range of formats.

Southland is both the most southerly and most westerly part of New Zealand and generally is the first to be influenced by weather systems moving onto the country from the west or south.

As this region is sheltered by high country to the south and east, it has less wind than many other parts of New Zealand.