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”