Otanewainuku Ecological District Survey Report
Land & freshwater - all regions
This land is adjacent to the existing DOC administered Athenree Wildlife Refuge Reserve and was gifted to DOC on the condition that it be restored to wetland/saltmarsh that will provide habitat for indigenous flora and fauna.
Learn about conservation efforts to protect and restore the Bay of Plenty region's wetlands.
Geothermal landscapes are far more than just visually fascinating features such as geysers and boiling mud pools.
This climate change project encompasses 250,000 ha of the catchments which run off the Kaimai Range.
Geysers, hot springs, mud pools, fumaroles, silica terraces and flats are some of the 1200 geothermal features that make up Rotorua's geothermal field.
Volcanoes are the landforms produced when molten rock escapes to the earth's surface. Volcanic activity has created many of the iconic features that we associate with New Zealand.