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Publications
Teachers
See our Useful links page for a list of wetland teaching resources
Wet and Wild Places
"Our Wet & Wild Places" is a beautifully illustrated booklet
produced by the Trust
that
highlights five of New Zealand's six Ramsar sites. The
booklet includes information on the special
features
of each site and how to get there. For a copy
send $10 and your details to the National Wetland Trust
(postal address below).
Exerpts from the book have been used to create our Ramsar site pages.
Wetland Restoration Handbook launched at National Wetland Restoration Symposium
Wetland Restoration: A Handbook for New Zealand Freshwater
Systems brings together expertise from specialists and groups actively
engaged in restoring wetlands throughout the country.
The handbook
builds on regionally based restoration guides and provides a detailed,
comprehensive ecosystem approach toward understanding, protecting and
enhancing our remaining wetlands.
It is targeted at those who plan to,
and those who already are making a difference to improving wetlands,
and is written in a way that can easily be understood and importantly,
acted on.
This beautifully designed handbook has excellent colour photographs, is
wire bound with wrap-around cover, and includes a CD of references and
websites. Order a copy from Manaaki Whenua Press.
You can also purchase from Manaaki Whenua Press a re-print of Wetland Plants in New Zealand by Johnson and Brookes.
Hooked on Native Fish
The NZ Landcare Trust has released a new factsheet series
focused on our native fish. Individual sheets cover urban fish, rural
streams, catchment management for fish, in-stream works to maintain or
improve fish habitat. Factsheet 1 has been translated into Te Reo.
Wetland book wins
Montana award
Renowned
New Zealand author Janet Hunt won the 2008 Montana Medal for
Non-fiction for her book that evokes both national celebration and
sorrow; the story of our wetlands.
Wetlands of New
Zealand - a Bitter Sweet Story, written over many years is
a stunning and touching insight into these beautiful (and broken)
ecosystems.
The
Trust has copies of Janet Hunt's "Wetlands of New Zealand" book for
sale at a special price of $50 (p&p $7.00 extra).
Contact trustee Keith Thompson to purchase a copy.
Key New Zealand wetland publications 
Wetland Types in New Zealand by
Peter Johnson &
Philippe Gerbeaux
describes a recently-devised system for classifying and naming New
Zealand
wetland types, and provides and understanding of how these wetlands
work.
The Post-glacial history of NZ wetlands
by Matt McGlone details the development and evolution of wetlands since
the end of the last ice age, and takes a provocative look at how we
are/ and how we should be, managing wetlands today. A Directory of Wetlands in New Zealand by Pam Cromarty and Derek Scott is a detailed inventory of New Zealands major wetland ecosystems.
Monitoring wetlands
The National Wetland Trust has been given the role of holding or
linking
to reports produced by the Ministry for the Environment Sustainable
Management
Fund project: Coordinated Monitoring of New Zealand Wetlands. Three of
these reports are now available and others will be added in the future:
Monitoring
changes in wetland extent (166 kb)
Monitoring
changes in wetland condition (826 kb)
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biocons/restoration/docs/handbook2004.pdf
Maori environmental performance indicators
for wetland
condition and
trend.
A wetland classification
system has also been developed.
Other reports Grazing
Effects on Wetlands (NIWA report) (501
kb)
The
Ramsar Convention: A Review of wetlands management in New Zealand
(2.4 mb)
Wellington Regional Council has produced a series of
wetland hydrology
guides. The guides can be downloaded from the following link:
wetland
hydrology guides.
Wetland research usefulness to end-users. A survey report by Kerry Bodmin, NIWA.
Last updated 12 September 2011
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