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Learn about the NIWA Community Based Monitoring (CBM) national quality assurance framework and how Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust's Wai Connection project is helping to implement it at a national level through the development of the CBM Website. Video editing Credit: Bailey Palmer Video footage taken by Lorna Doogan and MTSW Music Credits: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/dan-barracuda/enchantment License code: ZK9F7NIRP3H7XPHH Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/northwestern/hometown License code: YDFTKF8T0ZDKCSH5

Check out this video to learn what some of our more common freshwater macroinvertebrates look like so you can identify them next time you're down at your local stream. These cool little critters all get a score out of ten depending on how sensitive they are to water quality so they are good indicators of stream health!