Environment
Air quality is a major problem for Southland. Find out what the issues are and check out the latest monitoring results here.
Southland has the longest coastline of any region in New Zealand. Click here for bathing water quality results, cruise ship information, maritime activities and navigational safety rules, and learn more about our estuaries monitoring programme.
Check out our farming pages for advice and information on our rules, consents, irrigating, transporting stock and winter grazing.
Our catchment and land sustainability officers work hard to provide expert advice while working alongside landowners to ensure our environment is well managed. Click here for information on biodiversity, river and drainage works, riparian management and soil information.
We conduct many monitoring programmes - details and results can be found here. We also report on our findings. Our Annual Environmental Monitoring Report cards and our State of the Environment Reports can also be found here.
The Biosecurity team works with and provides advice to landowners across Southland on a number of pest plants and animals that threaten our environment. Find out more here.
Find out more about our Pollution Prevention programme and how you can become a part of it. There are many ways to deal with waste – organic and farm waste – read more here. Also find out about cleanfills and HAIL sites.
Sustainability is becoming more important, not only in the way we manage the environment, but in our daily lives as well. Find out more about urban sustainability here.
Southland has many lakes, rivers and streams not to mention all the water under the ground. Click here to find out more about our groundwater, surface water and living streams programmes, as well as bathing water quality and our Environmental Information Data – which is available online or over the phone.
Environment Southland is the brand name of Southland Regional Council.