Catchment Catch-Ups with Paul Turner, Project Manager at Taranaki Catchment Communities
In this fourth episode, of RaboTalk Growing our Future’s Catchment Catch-Ups series Blake Holgate speaks with Paul Turner from Taranaki Catchment Communities about how farmer-led catchment groups are helping rural communities take practical, locally driven action on water quality, biodiversity and environmental resilience.
Paul shares how 18 independent sub-catchment groups across Taranaki are working together to balance on-farm priorities with wider environmental goals, using tools such as 3D Lidar mapping to better understand water flow, identify risk areas and plan effective mitigations like riparian planting, wetlands and detention bunds.