Additional information

Reporting under the Environmental Reporting Act 2015

Under the Environmental Reporting Act 2015 (the Act), the Secretary for the Environment and the Government Statistician must produce regular reports on the state of our environment.

Under the Act, a report on a domain (marine, freshwater, land, air, and atmosphere and climate) must be produced every 6 months and a whole-of-environment (or synthesis) report every 3 years. Each domain report has now been published once (see the Environmental reporting section on the Ministry for the Environment website for the full list). The most recent synthesis report, Environment Aotearoa 2019, was published in April 2019. The previous land report was Our Land 2018.

Our land 2021 continues the second cycle of domain reporting. It updates Environment Aotearoa 2019 and Our land 2018 by presenting new data and insights.

As required by the Act, state, pressure, and impact are used to report on the environment. The logic of the framework is that pressures cause changes to the state of the environment and these changes have impacts. The reports describe impacts on ecological integrity, public health, economy, te ao Māori, culture, and recreation to the extent that is possible with the available data.

Suggesting or evaluating any responses to environmental impacts is out of scope under the Act. Therefore, this report does not cover the work that organisations and communities are doing to mitigate the issue. It does provide an update on the most recent data about the state of our land. The evidence in this report is a basis for an open and informed conversation about what we have, what we are at risk of losing, and where we can make changes.

Information for this report comes from many sources

Data, upon which this report is based, came from many sources including Crown research institutes and central government. Further supporting information was provided using a ‘body of evidence’ approach. This is defined as peer reviewed, published literature, and data from reputable sources. This also includes mātauranga Māori and observational tools used to identify changes in an ecosystem.

All the data used in this report, including references to scientific literature, was corroborated and checked for consistency. The report was reviewed by a panel of independent scientists.

Supporting information is available

This report is supported by other products that are published by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ:

• Environmental indicators: Land – summaries, graphs, interactive maps, and data that are relevant to the state, pressures, and impacts on land.
• Data tables are available on the Ministry for the Environment’s data service, and technical reports on the Ministry for the Environment’s website.

We would like to thank the following people and organisations for their invaluable contribution to Our land 2021 and Environmental indicators Te taiao Aotearoa.

Data providers

We would like to thank the following organisations for providing data for this report:

• Aqualinc Research Limited
• Department of Conservation
• Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
• Land Information New Zealand
• Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
• Ministry for Primary Industries
• Plant & Food Research
• Stats NZ.

This report includes several passages of knowledge from te ao Māori. We acknowledge the special nature and mana of the mātauranga contained in this report, it is a taonga. ‘Ahakoa he iti he pounamu – although it is small, it is precious’.

Senior science and mātauranga team

We would like to thank the following people and organisations for providing advice and critical review of this report:

• Amanda Black: Lincoln University
• Anne-Gaelle Ausseil: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
• Garth Harmsworth: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
• Margaret Stanley: University of Auckland
• Nick Waipara: University of Auckland, Plant & Food Research.

Peer reviewers

• Bryan Stevenson: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
• Hannah Buckley: Auckland University of Technology
• John Drewry: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
• Nick Roskruge: Massey University.

Infographics

The infographics were created by Dumpark Information Design. The infographic on page 7 was created collaboratively by Dumpark Information Design and Māui Studios Aotearoa.

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