Our Environment

What is Our Environment?

Our Environment is an interactive map viewer for New Zealand land-related environmental information.

The NZ Land Atlas provides you with free online maps and reports illustrating various aspects of the land, land resources and landscapes of New Zealand.

One of the important data layers in Our Environment is the Land Use Capability (LUC) classification. A brief description of the LUC data can be viewed, the map key, and information relating to each of the LUC's classes is displayed and reporting tools are available.

Also mapped is a visualisation of the baseline extent of Highly Productive Land, represented here as Land Use Capability classes 1, 2 and 3, as mapped in the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory.