Water in New Zealand
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Water is relatively abundant in New Zealand due to the temperate climate and maritime weather patterns. In recent years, water pollution and draw-down of aquifers have become important environmental i
Maruia Falls on the Maruia River in Tasman Region
Environment of New Zealand
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The environment of New Zealand is characterised by an endemic flora and fauna which has evolved in near isolation from the rest of the world. The main islands of New Zealand span two biomes, temperate
New Zealand, showing mountains dividing a wet largely forested west coast from a drier east coast
The effect of bedrock on soil and ecology. Ultramafic rock (left) and mafic rock (right).
A male brown kiwi. Eighty per cent of New Zealand's biota is endemic.
Kauri tree and epiphytes