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This dataset was first added to MfE Data Service on 16 Oct 2019.
These data provide a snap shot of beach litter surveys submitted by Citizen Scientist ‘Monitoring Groups’ up to April, 2019. As defined by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2009), marine litter is any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of, abandoned or lost in the marine and coastal environment. Marine litter washed onto beaches is one of the most obvious signs of marine pollution, and can have either land or sea-based origins. Land-based sources of marine litter include input from rivers, sewage and storm water outflows, tourism and recreation, illegal dumping, and waste disposal sites. Sea-based sources include commercial shipping, fisheries and aquaculture activities, recreational boating and offshore installations.
UNEP, 2009. Marine Litter: A Global Challenge. Nairobi: UNEP. 232 pp.
More information on this dataset and how it relates to our environmental reporting indicators and topics can be found in the attached data quality pdf.
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1. | Marine_litter_2018_2019_data_quality_report.pdf | 479 KB |
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Category | Environmental Reporting > Marine > Pollution |
Tags | OME2019, Our marine environment 2019, Marine litter, Sustainable Coastlines |
Metadata | Dublin Core |
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Table ID | 104071 |
Data type | Table |
Row count | 984 |
Columns | SurveyArea, SurveyDate, SurveyId, Region, MonitoringSite, SurveyLengthMeters, AboveHighTideMeters, BelowHighTideMeters, SurveyStartDateTime, SurveyEndDateTime, TotalNumberOfCitizenScientists, AuditStartDateTime, AuditEndDateTime, NumberOfAuditors, LitterCategory, LitterItem, Count, Weight, WeightConfidence, Grade, SurveyAreaLatitudeStart, SurveyAreaLongitudeStart, SurveyAreaLatitudeEnd, SurveyAreaLongitudeEnd |
Services | Web Feature Service (WFS), Catalog Service (CS-W), data.govt.nz Atom Feed |
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Added | 16 Oct 2019 |
Revisions | 1 - Browse all revisions |
Current revision | Imported on Oct. 15, 2019 from CSV . |