Hawke's Bay Broadscale Habitat (Cawthron, 2005)

The purpose was to characterise the type and extent of broad-scale habitat features along the coastline between low tide, and the clearest terrestrial delineation point or landscape feature.
The work completed for HBRC will provide a valuable foundation by defining the existing habitat types of the region identifying how any such areas remain undeveloped, where they are located, what the environmental values of the undeveloped areas are and providing an understanding of what features are susceptible to different pressures and whether development may adversely or irreversibly affect the area thereby providing a solid underpinning context for planning and management decisions including decisions to collect ore information.