Perceptions of the environment What New Zealanders think A Colmar Brunton research report for Fish and Game NZ December 2018

Fieldwork ran from 5 – 12 December. Methodology In 2018 Fish and Game NZ commissioned Colmar Brunton to ask some questions of the New Zealand public about what issues facing the country concern them most. The survey follows a similar one conducted by Colmar Brunton for Fish & Game NZ in 2017. As a results we included two questions on Colmar Brunton’s omnijet. The omnijet interviews 1,000 New Zealanders and the results are nationally representative for age, gender and region. Fieldwork ran from 5 – 12 December. The margin of error on a sample size of 1,000 is +3.1%.

Total extremely/very concerned The pollution of lakes and rivers has become the issue that New Zealanders are most concerned about from the options we presented. It has increased 7pp since 2017. All concerns have increased since last year. Along with water pollution, the biggest increases are for climate change and education. Total extremely/very concerned 82% (+7pp) 80% (+3pp) 78% (+4pp) 72% (+4pp) 70% (+7pp) 70% (+9pp) 67% (+2pp) 2018 75% 77% 74% 68% 63% 61% 65% 2017 Q1. To what extent are you concerned, or not concerned, about the following issues in New Zealand? Base: All people (excluding don’t know) n≈1,000