Taranaki Regional Council and Dialog Fitzroy have joined forces to launch a bus service for workers travelling between some of the region’s biggest industrial sites. From Monday two new Your Connector coaches will transport Dialog Fitzroy and other industry staff from Bell Block to Kapuni or Fonterra’s Whareroa site each weekday morning, stopping in New Plymouth and other towns along the way. They will return again in the late afternoon. Dialog Fitzroy is financially supporting the service, so
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 effects on the locality, including landscape,
community and see they are making a positive difference.” Currently traps have been set along the Mangaotuku Stream, around their school pool and buildings. They are all safely monitored by pupils. Year 7 Teacher Sylvia Howieson says her students are designing the WITT Science Fair poster with a predator-free theme. She is also working with a group of students who are writing a ‘reality or dream’ essay on the topic. Towards Predator-Free Taranaki Environment Officer Chauncy Ardell says with such
trapping network. The Gordons are the winners of Taranaki’s Trap NZ competition, winning a $100 Arborio meal voucher for having registered with Trap NZ and displaying their Towards Predator-Free Taranaki badge on their letterbox. These spot prize draws will be a regular occurrence, so make sure you get your badge or sticker on your fence/mailbox and traps registered on Trap.NZ. Nancy encourages other residents thinking of trapping in their backyard to take the leap ‘Absolutely, especially if you notice
but it’s more than that – they understand the importance of why they’re trapping and what it’s doing to support Taranaki’s biodiversity,” Mr Veric says. So far 29 Taranaki schools have joined Towards Predator-Free Taranaki. Primary and high school students of all ages are involved by making trap tunnels, or selling traps to their community, monitoring and recording information about predators, biodiversity and trapping catches, or analysing data. New Plymouth teacher Julie Neilson, from Woodleigh
is for our region’s biodiversity. In fact, she reckons her friends are probably sick of hearing about it. “I talk about it a lot,” she laughs. Gillian and Bernie plan to continue looking after the traps as long as they are able and would “absolutely recommend it” to others keen to make a difference to our region’s biodiversity. If you’re interested in checking traps in a New Plymouth park or reserve, contact NPDC Parks Volunteer Officer Laura George on (06) 759 6060 to see where volunteers are
possums are seen, heard or suspected in Oakura and Kaitake, the site of a possum eradication trial as part of Toward Predator-Free Taranaki, then the public are urged to call Taranaki Regional Council on its 24-7 environmental hotline 0800 736 222 or report it online: https://bit.ly/3c7w27H Anecdotal sightings of more native birds and fledglings by the public is promising, but it is too early for any credible trends to confirm native bird numbers are increasing, Mr Shanley says. Scientific trends will
Contractors will be off the road for Labour Weekend (22 to 26 October) and for the Taranaki Garden Festival (29 October to 7 November), with SH3 re-opened to two lanes as usual. In the event of bad weather, works may take longer than planned. What does this mean for Connector passengers? Southbound travel
Due to the detour, the southbound Connector service will not pass through Tariki. Tariki passengers are advised to use the temporary stops in Inglewood or Midhirst. The Inglewood stop will temporarily
to visit backyards looking for other food. “If you hear, see or suspect there may be a possum in your backyard or somewhere in urban Oākura then please call 0800 736 222 and report it,” says Max. Towards Predator-Free Taranaki is a region-wide community project, supported by $11.7 million from Predator Free 2050 Ltd. See the video A possum a day in Oākura