The force is strong with this one – meet Chewbacca, a feisty Long Haired Jack Russell who is helping lead the crusade to restore and revitalise native wildlife and plants in rural New Plymouth. Chewy's unwavering effort in the fight against mustelids (rats, stoats, ferrets), as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, saw him come face-to-face with a ferret. It viciously attacked Chewbacca, but eventually with the help of his long-time friend and master, Sally Masson of New Plymouth, they
data.
Section 3 discusses the results, their interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2024/25 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past,
A significant milestone has been reached in Taranaki’s Self-help Pest Programme as the first landowners take control of predator traps on their properties. Taranaki Regional Council’s long-running Self-help Possum Programme was extended in 2018 to also target mustelids such as ferrets, stoats and weasels. This came after the Council secured funding for the country’s first and largest landscape scale predator control project, Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, as a part of the Predator Free 2050
to take and use water, four
consents to discharge water or sediment into the Makara, Mangaotea and Mako streams, and four land use
permits for bed disturbance and structures in the Manganui River and Lake Ratapiko. All bar one consent of
the monitored consents for the scheme expired in June 2022 and are currently undergoing the consenting
renewal process. In the meantime, the Company continues to exercise the consents under the protection of
section 124 of the Resource Management Act 1991.
year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
GPS tracking collars on wild stoats in rural Taranaki may look cute, but they will provide vital information to help understand these notorious predators. “These predators may look harmless, but stoats are skilled killers responsible for up to 60% of kiwi chick deaths, and this information will be vital to rid stoats from both rural Taranaki and Taranaki mounga.” Towards Predator-Free Taranaki Project Manager Toby Shanley says. Recently this year, stoats in rural Taranaki were trapped, collared
Give the gift of biodiversity this Christmas – get a $10 rat-trap and box from a New Plymouth pop-up shop. The Towards Predator-Free Taranaki pop up shop is on the corner of Devon St and Liardet Street. It is open from: 9am to 5pm weekdays 10am-2pm Saturday 9am to 12pm Friday December 21 and Monday 24 December It opened last week and will close on December 24th so Christmas shoppers and/or people who want to get trapping, to protect biodiversity in their backyard, need to be quick! Towards
Today’s $20 million Government injection for Yarrow Stadium is great news for ratepayers and will allow the iconic venue to be back in operation as soon as possible, says the Taranaki Regional Council. “We’re extremely grateful for this ‘shovel-ready’ funding from the Government,” says the Council Chair, David MacLeod. “It will reduce Yarrow Stadium rates by a considerable amount, and we’re aiming for work to begin before the end of the year.” The Stadium’s grandstands were declared
Pukeiti’s unique qualities, and the experience and expertise behind them, have a pivotal national role in a global effort to save threatened rhododendron species from extinction. The heritage property on Mt Taranaki’s western flank is well known as an increasingly popular visitor attraction. But it also a centre of research and propagation in a conservation project led by Massey University and supported by Pukeiti’s owner, the Taranaki Regional Council, as well as the Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust
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Schedule 4 – Significant Surf Breaks and Nationally Significant Surfing Area
This schedule identifies sites identified in as nationally or regionally significant surf breaks, including the Nationally Significant surfing Area. Sites locations are approximate only and are
not intended to provide a