the Executive, Audit and
Risk Committee Meeting on Monday 14 February 2022 for the following reasons:
Item 8 - Public Excluded Minutes – 6 December 2021
That the public conduct of the whole or the relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting
would be likely to result in the disclosure of information where the withholding of the
information is necessary to protect information where the making available of the information
would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the
Rat numbers in New Plymouth continue to trend downwards, with a slight year-on-year increase coming as no surprise to experts. Each April since 2018 Towards Predator-Free Taranaki has monitored rodents at 10 sites across New Plymouth city. At each site 10 tracking tunnels are baited with peanut butter and left out for one fine night. In the morning, prints in the ink reveal whether there were rats, mice or other creatures present. This year rats were detected at 17% of tracking tunnels, up
Here's where you can find out about biodiversity in Taranaki including how the Council helps landowners and the wider community to protect, maintain and restore the region's key native ecosystems.
Activities such as burning rubbish, spraying weeds, on-farm rubbish dumping or applying fertiliser can all have the potential to affect air quality for you and for your neighbours. Here's where you can find out the rules of what you can and can't do.
will help land
users select a practice which is compatible
with farm management. Other information
sheets, available from the Taranaki
Regional Council’s office, give details
about how to implement the option
selected.
RETIREMENT FROM GRAZING
Retirement entails fencing off banks so
that they are no longer grazed by stock,
and re-establishing shrub or tree cover.
This practice is suitable for farms on
Taranaki’s ring plain where:
• pasture on banks is not needed for feed
•
presenting, compounded by the
tight timeframe to meet NPS-FM requirements. There is a risk, given the resource
constraints for the both Council and iwi, that a crunch point will be reached where the
programme will need to continue to evolve and not all issues may have been able to be
explored or resolved.
Financial considerations—LTP/Annual Plan
4. This memorandum and the associated recommendations are consistent with the
Council’s adopted Long-Term Plan and estimates. Any financial
It’s been a busy and rewarding year in the garden. The Taranaki Garden Festival was a resounding success, drawing visitors from the local community, across the nation and even overseas. Adding to the excitement, the Seaside Market graced Hollard Gardens in November, attracting an unprecedented number of visitors on a glorious blue-sky day. Now, we turn our focus to the bustling Christmas holidays and what promises to be a long and hot summer in the garden. Already, the garden is bursting with
used to improve performance while reducing the impact of your activities on the environment (notably nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and faecal contaminant impacts on water quality). This can involve technology (such as precision agriculture), a change to a farming system, or simply adapting the way existing farm management practices are carried out. Good farming practice also evolves with changes in science and technology and increased understanding of the environment; what was good practice 10
Summer is (allegedly) on the way, you can tell because between downpours it’s warmer than winter. On the plus side the spring rains have brought a riot of colour to Tūpare. The rhododendrons have had a spectacular start to the summer season and the hydrangeas are close behind. Hydrangeas thrive in Taranaki’s mild, damp climate and this year has been the best for a while. Personally, I think the blues have never been more vibrant. I’ve often speculated whether the low light levels associated