This document outlines the strategy's purpose of promoting
the management of riparian margins along the rivers and
streams in the Wellington Region. It assists owners of private
land to realise the following environmental outcomes:
improved water quality, and aquatic habitat; healthier river
ecosystems; the building of ecological links through the
wider landscape; halting decline of regional biodiversity;
improved ability for Maori to exercise their traditional use of
and guardianship over water and its environs; improved
community recognition of the part streams play in
environmental systems; and consequent improved care for
those streams by the community.