Know Our Catchment – issues and actions workshop
Lower Oreti Catchment Group
Catchment Group:
Project:
Know Our Catchment – issues and actions workshop
Funding:
$1,950 excl. GST
Period:
March 22 to May 22
Project Description
Engage a specialist speaker to collate and present water, soil, geology information relevant to the land managers and community in the Lower Oreti catchment. This will provide the Catchment Group with a base knowledge of their catchment to help them identify their issues and potential actions they want to take. This is to be the first event in a series to get this group up and running, and pull together a core committee:
Know our catchment – issues and actions workshop - Clint Rissmann
ES TAMI Southland's Future Environmental Challenges talk
Wetland field trip to a Farm
There will be an accompanying handout summarising the research and key info for the Lower Oreti catchment, along with a video.
Objectives
Provide the Lower Oreti community with science-based information that is understandable and relatable to help them kickstart the direction and actions for their Catchment Group
Give this newly formed Catchment Group an understanding of the key physiographic landscape settings influencing their area (the ‘why’ and ‘how’) in a non-blaming way
Provide a local trusted, relatable expert speaker to answer their questions and support them in developing some solutions (i.e., provide access to expert advice and information)
Start discussions on possible mitigation pathways that exist or could be considered as a Catchment Group – and help translate into an initial course of direction and actions for the group
Bring people together for an enjoyable, social and informative workshop/ meeting, and start to form the core of the Catchment Group.
Outcomes
Farmers, land managers and community members have a better understanding of soil, geology, water and land-use interaction in the Lower Oreti catchment, and identify future issues and possible mitigation pathways that they and their Catchment Group can work on
Farmers, land managers and community members with scientific information have more confidence to make decisions around environmental improvement
Awareness of local Catchment Groups raised, along with the breadth of topics and issues they can cover.
25 Don Street,
Invercargill 9810
PO Box 648,
Invercargill 9840
