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Freshwater plants and animals

Small hooded red orchid on a stem with one green leaf.

Streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands provide habitats for numerous plants and animals – including pests.

The following resources provide information about native, introduced and pest species that live in freshwater systems.

Articles

  • Wetland plants

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrates

  • Aquatic insect life

  • Freshwater fish of New Zealand

  • Ngā ika taketake wai māori o Aotearoa

  • Monitoring kōura

  • Whitebait

  • Longfin eels

  • Wetland animals

  • Introducing New Zealand ducks

Media

  • Pest plants

  • Kōura

Activities

  • Utilising Tuna navigating our freshwater environment

  • Te mana o te wai

  • Saving taonga

  • River connections

  • Observing freshwater invertebrates

  • Building a tau kōura

  • Freshwater fish of New Zealand quiz

  • Which duck is which?

  • Mixing and matching ducks

  • Duck dominoes

Image: Red hooded orchid (Corybas carsei) at Whangamarino Wetland. Catherine Beard, CC BY 4.0.

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