planting, connecting our riparian corridors, so that we’re not only providing shelter belts for our stock as the planting grows but we’re also helping create safe and healthy habitats for native wildlife like lizards, skinks, wētā, and birdlife,” Donna says. “Private land owners have a part to play in restoring Taranaki but we also need to be profitable. I think we can do both. Maybe one day we will be able to claim carbon credits from a portion of the 10,000 or more plants we have planted. “Farmers are
Visitors to Pukeiti wanting a light meal or a snack have a treat in store this season. Stop press: Café remaining open until 31 May
The Founders Café season has been extended and the cafe will remain open until the end of May, with a cosy new autumn menu. A new-look Founders Café opened early in September 2017, allowing patrons an early look at the Rainforest Centre that officially opened later in September. Colourful modern décor is a feature of the new eatery, which seats 60 inside and
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What are earthflows and slumps?
Earthflows are made up of disintegrating soil and
weathered rock, which moves by inter-particle or
inter-layer shear above a failure plane in underlying
rock. The failure plane may be either planar or
curved. The ground surface breaks into hundreds of
hummocks, roughly aligned as curving ridges at
right angles to the direction of flow, and separated
by tension cracks which form low scarps (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Typical earthflow terrain
Earthflows
if not eliminated entirely – and then makes sure that this happens. So as the project proceeds, the number and severity of risks will reduce. “And importantly, the risk register also allows Councillors to closely monitor progress and to satisfy ourselves that all appropriate measures are or will be put in place.” The register covers risks ranging from the technical suitability and effectiveness of the detailed repair plans and the availability of the expertise and equipment needed to implement
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MEASURING
AND REPORTING
WATER TAKES
An introduction to the Resource Management
(Measurement and Reporting of Water Takes)
Regulations 2010
If the regulations apply, check your consent conditions
to see whether your current obligations are more lenient,
exactly the same, or more stringent than each of the
requirements in the regulations.
If in doubt, contact your regional council – it is responsible
for enforcing the regulations.
Having established your compliance
Predator-Free Taranaki Project Manager Toby Shanley says. Taranaki Mounga Project have led an intensive rat trapping program in a 1000 hectare block on the north eastern side of Mount Taranaki below North Egmont, with 2160 self-resetting A24 gas powered traps, creating a safe environment for Robin to survive and breed. Almost 100 robin have now been released in this safe area through 2017 and 2018. “The sighting at Pukeiti, around 15 kilometres away, shows that with predator control robins are breeding and
Taranaki Regional Council which administers the Total Mobility scheme. The previous Hāwera operator, Energy City Cabs, was unable to offer a wheelchair option. South Taranaki Passenger Services Inc takes over in early February after Energy City Cabs withdraws from the town to focus on its operations in North Taranaki, where it will continue to offer the Total Mobility service. “Energy City Cabs has provided an excellent Total Mobility service in Hāwera since 2014 and we’ll continue working closely with
To help protect our passengers and drivers and to slow the potential spread of COVID-19 the levels of cleaning and hygiene have been increased on our services. Passengers are asked to: avoid close contact with others as much as possible
cover coughs and sneezes with disposable tissues or cough/sneeze into your elbow
dispose of used tissues appropriately
use the hand sanitiser that is provided
avoid using public transport if you are feeling unwell.
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consumers and decomposers.
Achievement Objective Level 6 Number 1
Investigate and describe examples of different types of helpful and harmful micro-
organisms.
Achievement Objective Level 7 Number 4
Research and develop a defensible position about a selected issue affecting the New
Zealand environment.
Making Sense of the Material World
Achievement Objective Level 3 Number 4
Research the use and purpose of technology in the disposal, or recycling, of some
common materials.
common along Taranaki's western and southern coasts from Sugar Loaf Islands to the Whenukura Estuary, and at Whitecliffs. Many of these small populations have disappeared or become degraded and vulnerable. Private landowners, councils and community groups are reintroducing it to some areas. Shore spurge information sheet Top of page Sea spurge - invasive weedSea spurge is a coastal weed that will have serious impacts on our coastal environment if it becomes established. It is thought to have arrived