Northland Regional Council 2013 Youth Summit
ACTION traction for Northland students!
It’s about learning while having fun!
Thirty-five students from sixteen schools in nine major Northland harbour and estuary
catchments
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Action Plans are developed
What’s the plan of attack to sort our coastal catchment’s issues?
Kaipara Harbour catchment:dairy runoff and pests out of Kaipara
Harbour!
Bay of Islands catchmentRubbish affecting Bay of Islands coast and waterways,
wetland bird population monitoring, boosting fish numbers
Ngataki Stream catchment (Rarawa Beach)
Cleaning up Ngataki Stream pollution to protect stream, eels,
puha and watercress
Research is part of the Youth Summit too:
Northland Regional Council’s Sate of the Environment
coastal report cards
It’s about getting to know the coast and each other!
Sandmapping
A different perspective on coastal development
It’s about team work
How is this coastal development shaping up?
Mock Resource Consent Hearing
Environmentalists and oyster farmers present their hearing
submissions
Teachers and sailors present their submissions too
Future action’s encouraged in all sorts of ways
Water pollution comes under the spotlight
More than 600 students since 1995
Empowering students
www.nrc.govt.nz/youthsummit
Empowering students!
“Students should come to the NRC Youth Summit because it’s great to learn new things about the coastal environment. We
can spread the news to others about looking after our catchments”