urban, rural and conservation land. Taranaki Regional Council monitoring data shows intensive predator control may already be making a difference – rats and possums in urban New Plymouth are decreasing, while the trapping network in rural and urban areas is expanding rapidly, Mr MacLeod says. Monitoring, using rat footprint tracking and a possum bite-mark index, show catch rates have dropped; rats went from 33 per cent to 19 percent in the past year, while the urban New Plymouth possum index has
Items of interest from today's meeting of the Taranaki Regional Council Policy and Planning Committee: Iwi testing the waters
Council officers are providing a number of iwi and hapū in the region with training and advice to allow them to monitor the health of waterways using a ‘Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit’ (SHMAK) developed by NIWA, the Committee was told. An initial approach for assistance came from the region’s southernmost iwi, Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi, and others have since
New trapping technology is helping the large-scale removal of stoats, ferrets and weasels in rural New Plymouth – the first step in a large scale rural operation that will be a New Zealand first. About 2100 self-resetting traps and wirelessly monitored traps, which send a notification to a mobile device when they’re activated, are being placed across 14,200 hectares of rural land between New Plymouth and Egmont National Park, as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki – the largest project of
identification and adaptations in addition to practicing good tikanga. More advanced quantitative surveys can be undertaken on request. Marine education resources can also be downloaded or ordered from the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre: https://www.otago.ac.nz/marine-studies/resources/index.html Other coastal activitiesThere are lots of other types of coastal monitoring and action projects that you and your students can get involved with. Get in touch to discuss options and find out how we can provide
Responsibilities
Prepare and review regional policy statements, plans and strategies and convene as a
Hearing Committee as and when required for the hearing of submissions.
Monitor plan and policy implementation.
Develop biosecurity policy.
Advocate, as appropriate, for the Taranaki region.
Other policy initiatives.
Endorse submissions prepared in response to the policy initiatives of organisations.
Membership of Policy and Planning Committee
Councillor C L Littlewood
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5. SEM Periphyton Monitoring Programme Report for 2018-2020 73
6. Regional Freshwater Recreational Bathing Water Quality Report for 2019-2020 88
7. Bathing Beach Recreational Water Quality SEM Report 2019-2020 106
8. Regional LiDAR PGF/LINZ Project 116
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Purpose of Policy and Planning Committee meeting
This committee attends to all matters of
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their local environment. They’re actively involved in
projects to protect and improve the environment
throughout their popular but sensitive coastal home
turf. And they’re enriching their cultural understanding
as well as their knowledge of science and nature.
They’re monitoring water quality at the Mimitangiauta
estuary, protecting koror (little blue penguins) andā
shorebirds by trapping predators and erecting signs,
planting dunes at Onaero Beach, replanting a stream
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Taranaki By-Products
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2019-2020
Technical Report 2020-97
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Executive summary
Taranaki By-Products Ltd (TBP/the Company) operates an animal …
programmes, the Policy and Planning Committee was told. The stocktake, detailed in a report commissioned by Te Wai Māori Trust, also confirms some findings made by the Council, and notes that this region offers valuable fisheries data due to the Council’s existing monitoring programmes. The report will be used as the Council develops new monitoring programmes in collaboration with Māori, and will also feed into the review of the Regional Freshwater and Land Plan. New pest blueprint gets all-clearTaranaki
data to present a standardised national overview. People wanting accurate and scientifically verified data on particular regions such as Taranaki should consult the relevant Regional Council reports. Freshwater trends remain positiveThe physical and chemical state of the regional waterways continues to generally improve over the longer term, even with fluctuations from year to year, the Policy and Planning Committee was told. Latest monitoring results, for the 2015-2016 year, showed nitrogen