Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency. Dataset used to develop the indicators: "Extinction threat to indigenous freshwater species", "Extinction threat to indigenous land species", and "Extinction threat to indigenous marine species" (available...

Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency. Dataset used to develop the "Lake water quality" indicator (available at https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/lake-water-quality). We report on eight biological, chemical, and physical lake water quality attributes based on spatially...

DATA SOURCE: Statistics New Zealand Agricultural Production Survey (APS) Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency Dataset used to develop the "Agricultural and horticultural land use" indicator (available at https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/agricultural-and-horticultural-...

Interpolated PED values at 30 regionally representative sites. Soil moisture is vital for plant growth. When plants cannot access the water they need, growth is reduced, affecting crops and food for livestock, and native biodiversity. Over a sustained period, a drought can have significant social and economic costs, particularly for rural communities....

Irrigation is used to support land use, particularly in areas with low or seasonal rainfall. Irrigation can improve the productivity of land for farming activity, and support amenity or recreational land uses within urban environments.Irrigation can also alter the natural character of our landscapes (eg change dry land to greener and wetter land), and can...

This dataset measures annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites across Aotearoa New Zealand from 1960 to 2022. We also provide data for annual and seasonal anomalies (difference from baseline) for each site from 1960 to 2022. Variables: site: NIWA climate site. season: Season or Annual data (combined for ease of data use) precipitation: Rainfall in mm...

This dataset reports the annual and seasonal temperatures at 30 sites around the country from at least 1972 to 2022. Data are also provided on anomalies for all 30 stations (difference from the 1991–2020 baseline period) and for 16 stations (difference from the 1961–1990 baseline period). Variables: site: NIWA monitoring site statistic: Statistic: maximum...

DATA SOURCE: Fertiliser Association of New Zealand Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency Dataset used to develop the "Fertilisers phosphorus and nitrogen applied" indicator [available at https://statisticsnz.shinyapps.io/farm_fertiliser_applied_apr21/] ​ This indicator...

Note that this is a large dataset so is provided as a shapefile, and will need a GIS application to view. Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency. Dataset used to develop the "River water quality: macroinvertebrate community index" indicator (available at...

DATA SOURCE: National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) [Technical report available at https://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/environmental-reporting/ministry-environment-atmosphere-and-climate-report-2020-updated] Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency Dataset...

Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and...

The resource management consents dataset is compiled annually from data supplied by Local Authorities (Regional, Unitary, and Territorial Councils), by the Ministry for the Environment. It contains all resource consent applications or reviews granted, declined, found incomplete, returned or withdrawn by local authorities from 2014/15 to 2022/23.

This data is deprecated. Please visit https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/117733 for the latest version. The LUCAS NZ Land Use Map 2016 v011 is composed of New Zealand-wide land use classifications (12) nominally at 1 January 1990, 1 January 2008, 31 December 2012 and 31 December 2016 (known as "1990", "2008", "2012" and "2016"). These date boundaries were...

Areas of LUCAS LUM forests that have been cleared between 2008 and 2022 inclusive. Forest clearing is detected using mosaics of satellite imagery captured over a range of dates; therefore the year of clearing provided is nominal.

DATA SOURCE: Aqualinc Research Limited [Technical report available at https://environment.govt.nz/publications/national-irrigated-land-spatial-dataset-2020-update] Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency ​ The spatial data covers all mainland regions of New Zealand, with the...

The LUCAS NZ Land Use Map 2020 v003 is composed of New Zealand-wide land use classes (12) nominally at 31 December 1989, 31 December 2007, 31 December 2012, 31 December 2016, and 31 December 2020. These date boundaries are dictated by the Paris Agreement and former Kyoto Protocol. The data can therefore be used to create a map at any of the nominal...

Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and...

Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and...

Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and...

Areas of LUCAS LUM forests that have been cleared between 2008 and 2016 inclusive. Forest clearing is detected using mosaics of satellite imagery captured over a range of dates; therefore the year of clearing provided is nominal.