(another site with significant indigenous biodiversity values). It provides a buffer and enhances the ecological values of the National Park Sustainability Positive In relatively good vegetative condition. Key ecological processes still influence the site and, under appropriate management, it can remain resilient to existing or potential threats page 9 Management threats and response Potential and actual threats to the sustainability of the Alfred Road forest
the end of the report. page 2 1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring The Resource Management Act 1991 (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; (b) physical effects on the
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; b. physical
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; (b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects; (c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or terrestrial; page 2 (d) natural and physical resources having
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of the report. page 2 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
on Advocacy and Response activities for the 2016/2017 year 2. notes that thirty-one (31) submissions were made during the year on the policy initiatives of other agencies 3. notes that senior staff were also involved in various working parties or other fora on central government policy development and review projects. Raine/McIntyre Closing Karakia Mr M Ritai (Iwi Representative) gave the closing Karakia to the Policy and Planning Committee and Karakia for kai (lunch).
in the Kahouri Stream catchment, a tributary of the Patea River. The Company currently processes beef. Wastewater is treated in a two pond system, which is either irrigated to land when conditions allow, or to the Kahouri Stream during high flow conditions. This report for the period July 2016 to June 2017 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental and consent compliance performance during the period
resilient to existing or potential threats Management threats and response Potential and actual threats to the sustainability of the Lake Kairura’s ecological values are as follows: Threats to ecological values Level of risk Comment Pest animals Medium to high Possums, cats, mustelids, hedgehogs, and rats Weeds Low Habitat modification Low to medium Grazing is a threat on unfenced margins page 81 Site protection measures
consent holder for Council audit have been used in compiling this report. The Council did not receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2012-2013 monitoring period. The Company has demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and compliance with the resource consents exercised during this period. For reference, in the 2012-2013 year, 35% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
particular the small Policy team. Recommended That the Taranaki Regional Council: 1. receives the memorandum Ministry for the Environment – current work programme 2. notes the many areas of interest or concern to the Council. Littlewood/MacLeod 3. Report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on Overseer and regulatory oversight 3.1 Mr G K Bedford, Director-Environment Quality, spoke to the memorandum introducing a report prepared by the