Council under various legislative frameworks
including, but not restricted to, the Local Government Act 2002, the Resource Management Act
1991 and the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
Iwi considerations
This memorandum and the associated recommendations are consistent with the Council’s
policy for the development of Māori capacity to contribute to decision-making processes
(schedule 10 of the Local Government Act 2002) as outlined in the adopted long-term plan
deteriorating. A more rigorous statistical analysis reveals an ‘almost certain’ trend of a significant ecological improvement at 22 sites (up from 15 three years earlier); a ‘very likely’ positive trend at seven sites; and no sites showed a significant decline. (Click/tap on map for large version) [JPG, 758 KB] Monitoring shows that, in general, water quality across the region is improving or not showing any significant change. Recent improvement is strengthening, with scope for further improvement. Physical
Representation
Iwi representation and participation on the
Operations and Regulatory and the Policy and
Planning standing committees has continued.
Information management
Maintenance of the Iwi contacts list is ongoing.
Following up on requests from iwi/hapu for access
to our GIS layers, these layers are available to view
and download through local maps and open data:
• regional wetlands
• key native ecosystems
• river
• monitoring sites
• coastal management sites
• land
programmes 34
5.3 Working with others 35
5.3.1 Objectives 35
5.3.2 Biodiversity forums 36
5.3.3 Protocols with others 37
5.3.4 ‘Iconic’ and ‘significant’ projects 38
5.3.5 Working with iwi 40
5.3.6 Working with others 41
5.3.7 Advocacy 42
5.3.8 Measuring and reporting progress with working with others on biodiversity programmes 43
5.4 Monitoring and information management and sharing 45
5.4.1 Objectives 45
5.4.2 Operational monitoring and information
inventory sites;
Department of Conservation priority sites;
Key sites from Forest Research Institute reporting;
Outstanding freshwater bodies;
Landcare Research mapped wetlands;
Potential inanga spawning sites;
and threatened species records for western brown kiwi, long- and short-tailed bats, and little
blue penguins
The resulting preliminary map (Fig. 1) shows both alignment and discrepancies between biodiversity
values and the work that is being
October 2021 rainfall maps
Davey
D H McIntyre
B J Bigham
D L Lean (Joined meeting at 9.22am via zoom)
C L Littlewood ex officio
N W Walker ex officio
D Luke Iwi Representative
Ā White Iwi Representative (zoom)
R Buttimore Iwi Representative (zoom)
Attending: S J Ruru Chief Executive
A J Matthews Director - Environment Quality
A D McLay Director – Resource Management
D R Harrison Director – Operations
R Honeyfield Team Lead – Prosecutions and Compliance
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Members Councillor S W Hughes Chairperson
D M Cram Deputy Chairperson
M J Cloke
B J Bigham Via Zoom
M G Davey
D H McIntyre
D L Lean Via Zoom
N W Walker ex officio
C L Littlewood ex officio
Representative
Members Mr D Luke Iwi Representative
Attending Mr S J Ruru Chief Executive
Ms A J Matthews Director - Environment Quality
Mr A D McLay Director – Resource Management
Mr M
September 2021 rainfall maps
being rolled out across the region in stages and aims to boost populations of native plants, birds and reptiles by removing introduced threats. It is supported by more than $11 million from the Crown company Predator-Free 2050 Ltd. Towards Predator-Free Taranaki - Taranaki Taku Tūranga Well-placed with wetlands dataTaranaki is well placed to have all of the region’s natural wetlands identified and mapped to comply with a new Government directive, the Policy & Planning Committee was told. The Council