LOCAL OWNERSHIP

Sue Brown

Community Catchment Management Workshop“Maintaining and Improving Lasting Partnerships”

Murchison 30th January 2015

Why LOCAL OWNERSHIP is key to successful catchment management:

KEY ELEMENTS FOR ENGAGING DAIRY FARMERS IN ACTION TOWARDS HEALTHY WATERWAYS:

A CASE STUDY IN THE AORERE CATCHMENT, NEW ZEALAND

by Jodie Robertson

Thesis ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 593 [2011]

For a copy, just google “Jodie Robertson”

Limit to New Zealand search and it’s on the first page of results.

Add the word “dairy” or “aorere” and it will be top of the list!

Local Ownership = Successful Catchment Management

• Covers an area of 706 km2

• Short steep river with a length of

72km

• *80% Native forest, 16% agriculture,

3% scrub, 1% exotic forest

• Dairy farming most common

agriculture

• 11,000 - 13,500 cows on 33 farms

• High variable rainfall

The Aorere Catchment

APRIL 2005

http://www.landcare.org.nz/Regional-Focus/Nelson-Office/Aorere-Catchment

Available for download, 'Aorere Our River Our Future.' Celebration of a successful 3 year project. (file size 3.3MB): 

aorere-booklet-sm.pdf

Big ticket items are only part of the cost of change. Each one of these involved extensive fencing, laneway and reticulated water system changes

Going with the Flow – Country Life, RadioNZ July 2014Golden Bay dairy farmer Sue Brown has been acclaimed for her leadership of the Aorere Catchment Project. It's been responsible for cleaning up waterways in the Collingwood area after it was found that run-off from pastures was affecting water quality in the coastal marine harvesting area. As well as her involvement in water quality projects, Sue also chairs the Golden Bay dairy section of Federated Farmers and is on the Nelson Marlborough Conservation Board. Sue and her partner, John Nalder, farm 300 dairy cows at the foot of the Wakamarama Range; a flood prone block of coastal land where they've lived for 17 years.