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Regional areas of pasture on hill-county erosion-prone land by erosion risk class

Text description: area (in hectares) of pasture on hill-country erosion-prone land in 2002 (LCDB 2) by region. This includes pastoral land above and not above 1000 m in three erosion risk classes: extreme, very severe and severe.

Region
extreme
> 1000 m
very severe
> 1000 m
severe
> 1000 m

extreme

very
severe

severe
Total

Northland
0
0
0
5,790
10,161
49,881
65,832

Auckland
0
0
0
1,002
2,909
9,078
12,988

Bay of Plenty
0
0
4
918
5,549
19,384
25,855

Waikato
1
4
0
1,891
3,446
106,973
112,315

Gisborne
1
47
282
927
77,909
79,216
158,382

Hawke’s Bay
6
357
359
3,263
34,425
72,006
110,416

Manawatū
20
11
131
7,337
11,878
204,158
223,535

Taranaki
0
0
0
965
7,559
29,920
38,444

Wellington
0
0
0
1,293
18,936
31,158
51,387
North Island
27
418
776
23,386
172,773
601,773
799,154

Nelson
42
0
0
95
0
1,399
1,535

Tasman
358
99
96
2,438
209
19,498
22,697

Marlborough
6,004
7,611
15,903
5,126
3,776
33,527
71,946

Canterbury
10,669
875
10,027
18,142
2,740
71,318
113,770

West Coast
84
75
3
1,585
227
2,619
4,592

Otago
1,387
1
17,261
3,870
38
78,680
101,236

Southland
709
0
787
2,107
21
21,813
25,437
South Island
19,253
8,660
44,076
33,362
7,010
228,853
341,213

Total
19,279
9,078
44,852
56,748
179,784
830,626
1,140,367

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