If you’re toying with the idea of ditching the car and using public transport for the sake of the planet, now is the ideal time to give it a go. Taranaki’s regional and local bus services will be free on Friday (20 September) to mark World Car-Free Day. This includes New Plymouth Citylink services (except school buses), and the Hāwera-New Plymouth Connector, while once-weekly or twice-weekly Southlink services will be free all week so no one misses out. “Everyone’s increasingly aware of the
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National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
Draft regional targets for swimmable rivers and lakes for
the Taranaki region: March 2018
Introduction
The National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) directs all regional councils
(including unitary authorities) to set draft regional targets to improve the quality of fresh
water so rivers are suitable for primary contact more often. Furthermore, the Taranaki
Regional Council (the
never-before-recorded information will be shared with other regions to help achieve the nation-wide ambition to remove all rats, stoats and possums from New Zealand by 2050. New Plymouth farmers Steve and Daphne Tarrant, of Waiwhakaiho, have been trapping possums and stoats on their 18-hectare farmlet for the past five years and are looking forward to easier trapping and removing more predators with the new technology. “We have bellbirds, tui, and pigeons come in the late afternoon, I can get away in a world of my
town today (Friday 25 January) after celebrating their wedding in Ireland, where the bride hails from. They’ve been working in the zero possum area, for Taranaki Regional Council, together with Oākura locals, community groups, Taranaki Mounga Project and Taranaki Regional Council, as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki. However, the newly-wed couple are calling on Oākura residents to help eradicate possums - reporting any suspected possums in the area to them 24/7 on 0800 736 222 “We can’t do
The Council's Inventory of Key Native Ecosystems (KNEs), first published in 2006 and continually updated since, documents hundreds of biodiversity hotspots. Inventory of Key Native Ecosystems in Taranaki (2006) Contents, Introduction and Background, Reader's Guide (p1-7) (192 KB pdf) More KNEs Contents, Introduction and Background, Reader's Guide (p1-7) (192 KB pdf) Alfred Road - Kuwhatahi (p8-79) (1.4 MB pdf) Lake Kaikura - Nofolk Road (p80-147) (1.3 MB pdf) Nowell's Lakes - Rowan Road
As we transition into winter, it's the perfect time to reflect on the activities and changes that took place at Pukeiti over the autumn months. The Vireya Walk saw some important changes and is starting to show its colours. We thinned out certain plantings, to expose the hard landscape features that had been hidden. This has also created new spaces for planting in the future. Our Camellia sasanqua and Rata are in bloom, adding splashes of red, pink and white to the landscape, which made autumn
Taranaki’s native wildlife, predators and urban trappers are in the spotlight, with some species and trap catches under surveillance 24/7, providing live data. Scientist Halema Jamieson, from Taranaki Regional Council, leads the region-wide monitoring that’s shining a light on native wildlife, plants and the predators that threaten them - rats, mustelids (stoats, weasels and ferrets), possums, and feral cats – as part of the region-wide project Towards Predator-Free Taranaki. The latest
plant), Dialog Fitzroy Ltd and Katere Surface Coatings Ltd
(abrasive blasting). This report for the period July 2023 to June 2024 details the monitoring programme
implemented by Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the companies’ compliance with consent
conditions and environmental effects of the companies’ activities in relation to air quality.
Overall, the companies assessed in this Lower Waiwhakaiho Air Discharge Compliance Monitoring
Programme demonstrated a high level of
Management Act 1991
1.1.1 Introduction
This report is for the period July 2023 to June 2024 by Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) on the
monitoring programme associated with resource consents held by Todd Petroleum Mining Company Ltd
(Todd Petroleum). Todd Petroleum operates the Kapuni Production Station situated on Palmer Road,
Kapuni, together with its associated wellsites.
The report includes the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented by the Council in
respect