Hon DAVID PARKER: Another Jobs for Nature project is backing the Accelerating Bay of Plenty Freshwater Improvement project, helping fence 174 kilometres, 450,000 native plants, and these steps will help protect the region's waterways and enhance biodiversity. Catchments covered in the project are the Pongakawa River, tributaries of the Waihī estuary, the Poraiti and Kaituna, Nukuhou catchments, and the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes. They're all experiencing high levels of contaminants from sedimentation and livestock nutrients, which is impacting on ecosystem health, swimming, and tuna. It's a great example of central and local government working together with private landowners and iwi to put the health of the waterway first.