Bailey: “Let's earn a reputation for punching above our weight in the fight against climate change”

Christine Rose (Greenpeace agricultural campaigner): “Rapid deintensification of the dairy industry is critical to making required changes”.

WWU: We advocate for the reallocation of water consents away from intensive dairy farming, which is responsible for 20% methane emissions

Andrea Vance: “Government walked back the environmental rules …housing developments, mines, or waste landfills could be built over wetlands”

Ihaia Hutana: “The biggest thing to me is that local people come to know what the deceptive behaviours of pakeha were like in those times”

Phyllis Tichinin on regen farming: "our soils are the best cheapest water storage scheme – farming in Nature's image is better for everyone"

Snow Tane: “The purpose is to see how to use water better – the opportunity to diversify land use is the biggest opportunity I see”.

Declan Graham (Plant & Food Research): “We’d investigate if we can grow almonds using less water compared to commercial practices overseas”

Barnes: “The rise of alternatives to cow’s milk has happened sharp and fast”, impacting on a sector under heavy pressure to cut herd sizes.

Schofield: “This option is much easier and less risky than building dams”, as HB considers how best to achieve greater water security.

Gren Christie: “Trees that ancestors of people living in CHB today may have rested under before Captain Cook saw Aotearoa will be destroyed

Gren Christie: "It would be Wise Water Use to reverse-engineer Lake Whatuma, using water from surrounding farmland to maintain its health.

Paul Bailey, past HB Regional Councillor, argues that Council should buy out intensive dairy units on Ruataniwha Plains and reallocate water

Phyllis Tichinin, environment management consultant, explains how green plant cover creates a living carbon sponge that protects our soils.

Agricultural consultant Barrie Ridler says 'dryland farming systems are low cost, yet productive", "Bay could become wonderful environment".