Freshwater plants and animals

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.