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March 2005 Primary StatZing!
Renewable resources
Geothermal, wind and solar energy are all renewable resources. The fish snapper and orange roughy are too as long as we don’t over fish.
The trees rimu, beech, totara and taraire are renewable as long as the forests are sustainably managed. Most indigenous forests in New Zealand are harvested under strict regulations that mimic nature. Very few trees are taken from one place at any one time so that the forests will continue over time.
Natural energisers
Non renewable energy resources are coal, gas and oil.
Forests cover land
Most land in New Zealand is pastoral land.
The graph shows more indigenous forest (trees which are native to New Zealand) than planted forest.
The North Island has more planted forest.
Pastoral land covers more of the North Island than the South Island.
Pastoral jobs include sheep farming, deer farming and dairy farming.
Fish facts and quotas
The commercial fishers were allowed to catch 6,494 tonnes of snapper in 2002.
Recreational fishers were allowed to catch 1,056 tonnes of snapper in 2002.
Eel rules
In the past, individual iwi, (tribes) hapu,(sub tribes) and whanau (extended families) had their own eeling waters. Others couldn’t fish there and at times a tapu was placed on the river or stream to help protect the resource even further. These traditions continue in many places today.
Raindrops keep falling
The bar graph has the regions along the bottom and intervals of 10,000 up the side.
The West Coast region has the highest rainfall.
The Auckland region has the lowest rainfall.
The Auckland region probably used the most water because it has the biggest population.
The West Coast region had 2.3 cubic meters of rainfall per person in 2001.
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