Story: Farming and the environment

More links and websites

• Energy greenhouse gas emissions

  This page on the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment website links to an annual publication about New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions.

• Lake Taupo

  This page on the Environment Waikato website contains information for people farming in the Lake Taupō catchment area on how to comply with regulations protecting the lake.

• QEII National Trust

  The website of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, which encourages landowners to protect natural or cultural heritage sites on their land.

• Resource Management Act

  This page on the Ministry for the Environment site provides information about the Resource Management Act 1991.

More suggestions and sources

• Cameron, Murray, and Chloe Trenouth. Are desired environmental outcomes being achieved at least cost? A case study of dairy effluent management. Wellington: Ministry for the Environment, 1999.
• Growing for good: intensive farming, sustainability and New Zealand's environment. Wellington: Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 2004.
• Pawson, Eric and Tom Brooking, eds. Environmental histories of New Zealand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Young, David. Our islands, our selves: a history of conservation in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.