Transforming Taranaki, a booklet published in November 2011, is about a massive environmental project that is transforming the region's landscape.
That project is the Taranaki Riparian Management Programme.
Transforming Taranaki tells how farmers, with the encouragement of the Taranaki Regional Council and the dairy industry itself, are becoming better guardians of the environment by working to reduce the amount of diffuse-source pollution going into the region’s rivers and streams – the material that is washing off pastures and into waterways.
The publication describes the Riparian Management Programme and its successes so far. Not only does it detail how the Programme operates, it also provides the latest information from both this country and overseas that underlies the benefits of retiring riparian margins.
Transforming Taranaki: The Taranaki Riparian Management Programme (3.3 MB)
For printed copies of Transforming Taranaki, email publications@trc.govt.nz.