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Ministry for the Environment & Statistics New Zealand (2015). New Zealand's Environmental Reporting Series: Environment Aotearoa 2015. Available from www.mfe.govt.nz and www.stats.govt.nz.

First published in October 2015 by
Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand
Reprinted in November 2015

See www.stats.govt.nz/envcorrections for details of changes made to pages 26, 32, 33, 34, 45, 67, 72, 97, 101, 108, 116, and 124.

Publication number: ME 1215

ISSN: 2382-0179 (Online)
ISSN: 2463-3038 (Print) 

ISBN: 978-0-478-41298-7 (Online)
ISBN: 978-0-478-41299-4 (Print)