Got a special block of bush or wetland area on your land? It might fall into our Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) programme and qualify for a free Biodiversity Plan. Protecting native habitats relies on effective planning to ensure all aspects of management are considered. For example it's no good killing the predators if meanwhile old man's beard is smothering the canopy. To help owners protect KNEs on their land, the Council prepares free Biodiversity Plans for KNEs that fall either wholly or
Business category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Daily News Todd Energy - for a significant contribution to the safeguarding and protection of the Kapuni Awa. After major flooding on the Kapuni Awa (river) in South Taranaki in July 2021, Taranaki energy company Todd Energy invested in a 100m-long new rock wall. Around 1500m3 of land within the Nova Generation Solar Farm site was washed away during the major weather event, with sediment
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consultation later in the year. The Committee was told that the draft includes greater guidance for Councils on how to meet Government-mandated environmental outcomes, and on what Planning Committees should consider in the new regionally focused approach that will combine current regional and district plans. But the draft also has significant gaps, and it also signals a move to the centre at the expense of local governance. As well, the draft stipulates environmental limit-setting processes that may result
from a record low 9.8% last year. It is still significantly less than the 33% in 2018, when Taranaki Regional Council launched the Towards Predator-Free Taranaki programme. Programme lead Sam Haultain says this year’s result was no great surprise to her team or regional council scientists. “We’ve had amazing weather over the last year or two, which rodents love. They have plenty of food and it has been warm, so last year was always going to be hard to beat! Keeping the rate at 17% is testament to
is ‘objectionable or offensive’ and thus in breach of Council’s Regional Air Quality Plan (RAQP). The Council deals with about 200 air-quality complaints and incidents annually. The analysis, part of a review of the RAQP, found that there is generally good compliance by those with resource consents allow air discharges, with a non-compliance rate of 2%, mostly involving odour. Three consented sites have accounted for more than half of recent incidents and complaints involving consent-holders.