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Native lake / pond margin

Explore the margins of lakes and ponds and their freshwater habitats.

These 23 environments are proposed player-facing categories, not an authoritative scientific ecosystem classification.

Your starter environment

A shared 360° starter workspace is available. Habitat-specific scenery and objects still need reviewed material.

Build a private world

Public exploration is open. Editing and saving use your existing NZ Ex Games account and participation authority.

Content gaps and potential Field missions
  • A reviewed 360° environment for native lake / pond margin.
  • Documented habitat and species photographs for native lake / pond margin, with capture context and reuse permission.
  • Authentic ecological relationships and process examples; identifications and interpretations need review.

Online participants can help research sources and describe what is missing. Field participants can contribute original captures with context and permissions. These are suggested missions, not submitted requests.

Existing Field contribution pathway · Explore Missions

Field submissions remain subject to existing review and publication controls; uploading does not add them to this library.

Shared references

1 image available.

Reference applicability helps investigation. It does not verify a habitat classification, species occurrence or ecological outcome in your world.

Travis Wetland

Travis Wetland

Travis Wetland, Christchurch. A named-place reference, not evidence of NZ Ex Games participation or ecological recovery.

Water and vegetation margin reference; not a kahikatea swamp forest or peat bog identification. This wide photograph is not a 360° sphere.

Habitat reference · Wetland landscape

Michal Klajban · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Full-frame resize, no crop, no upscale; public metadata stripped Reuse must retain attribution and licence conditions, including ShareAlike where applicable. No endorsement is implied.

Provenance and review

Retained source description; no independent species or site verification claimed. Water and vegetation margin reference; not a kahikatea swamp forest or peat bog identification. This wide photograph is not a 360° sphere.

Reviewed reference · rights verified · approved for library use. Source photograph; reference context, not evidence from your world.

No associated NZ Ex Games Field contribution.

Asset EXG-P2-06 · version 1

Image SHA-256: 14e98541182a5a34b468c92e8b0e62652f086e8bdafd4ff31e5e840d777ece4f

Retained source SHA-256: 17ca233e0c308f578c961c88dd2493fe643cf1df1c66a2499aa8e357a0ff5743

Applicable environment views (2)

Use the References palette in your private world to arrange this image with its attribution.

Choose an environment

Lowland native forest is the working demonstration. Kahikatea swamp forest and pastoral farmland / farm margins are enrichment priorities.