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Land Soil intactness
Regional change in the area of pasture on erosion-prone land
Just over half of this total was in the Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, and Manawatū–Wanganui regions (17,481 hectares in total). In the South Island, the Marlborough and Tasman regions experienced a combined pastoral land-cover change of 4,119 hectares.
Area (in hectares) of pasture on hill-country erosion-prone land by region between 1997 (LCDB 1) and 2002 (LCDB 2)
| Region | Erosion-prone area (hectares) in pasture (LCDB 1) |
Erosion- prone area (hectares) in pasture (LCDB 2) |
Area (hectares) change from pasture (LCDB 2) |
Percentage change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Northland |
67,723 |
65,832 |
–1,691 |
–2.50 |
Auckland |
13,101 |
12,988 |
–53 |
–0.40 |
Bay of Plenty |
27,000 |
25,855 |
–1,104 |
–4.09 |
Waikato |
116,049 |
112,315 |
–3,680 |
–3.17 |
Gisborne |
167,141 |
158,382 |
–8,151 |
–4.88 |
Hawke’s Bay |
113,128 |
110,416 |
–2,537 |
–2.24 |
Manawatū |
230,585 |
223,535 |
–6,793 |
–2.95 |
Taranaki |
40,580 |
38,444 |
–2,136 |
–5.26 |
Wellington |
54,281 |
51,387 |
–2,794 |
–5.15 |
Nelson |
1,612 |
1,535 |
–76 |
–4.74 |
Tasman |
24,249 |
22,697 |
–1,012 |
–4.17 |
Marlborough |
75,042 |
71,946 |
–3,107 |
–4.14 |
Canterbury |
113,995 |
113,770 |
–220 |
–0.19 |
West Coast |
4,623 |
4,592 |
–16 |
–0.35 |
Otago |
101,531 |
101,236 |
–294 |
–0.29 |
Southland |
26,083 |
25,437 |
–646 |
–2.48 |
Total |
1,176,721 |
1,140,367 |
–36,354 |
–3.09 |
Note: Pasture classes from the erosion risk data used for this analysis limited to the LCDB Database ‘Primarily Pastoral’ classes for reporting.
Data source: Landcare Research.
This information has come from the latest national state of the environment report Environment New Zealand 2007.
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Last updated: December 2007
