on our environment. Karen Hamer and Robert Crookbain In 2019, Karen and Robert, farmers with a keen environmental conscience, made a pivotal decision. They purchased a 2.4ha indigenous forest remnant adjacent to their property with the express purpose of protecting it from future damage. Through their efforts, Robert and Karen have rescued a piece of nature and are leading the restoration of a chronically threatened ecosystem. Marc and Karen Tuffield The Tuffields have covenanted 915 hectares of
Find out more about the work of Glenn and Lynda Howatson in the eastern hill country in Taranaki. WinnerGlenn and Lynda Howatson - For leadership and excellence in environmental stewardship or sustainable farming and land use practices. The eastern hill country farmers have planted more than 7,000 riparian plants and fenced hundreds of metres of waterways and taken steps to protect six wetlands. They hold a TRC Comprehensive Farm Plan and have used STRESS funding to plant trees on 37ha on their
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Land management category winners in the 2021 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Corteva Neil Phillips - for a significant contribution to the protection and enhancement of precious native habitats in Taranaki and enlisting landowner support for these efforts. Thousands of hectares of native bush and other valuable habitat in Taranaki is protected forever thanks in large part to the efforts of Neil Phillips, who’s retiring as the region’s QEII National Trust’s
Holswich - for outstanding contributions to the protection of culturally and environmentally significant sites within the Ngāti Rāhiri rohe Keith has played a key role in ensuring that details of more than 100 places significant to his Ngāti Rāhiri hapū are accurately logged and recorded to ensure they are not damaged or lost through inappropriate use or development. His work is of immense value to Te Atiawa and to the TRC and other agencies, and will allow his hapū and iwi, and the wider general
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Providing for submitter appeal rights to the Environment Court only in certain circumstances. Download the Ministry for the Environment factsheet for more information: A new freshwater planning process(external link) Further river and streams surveysThe Council has commissioned Dr Ian Jowett to expand upon his June 2018 report Review of Minimum Flows and Water Allocation in Taranaki and to undertake some additional work on the effects of various environmental flows
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across the whole property).
Under sections 70(c)(vii) and 71(d), (e) and (f) of the BSA
(see Appendix A) a regional council is required to be
cognisant of, and evaluate and document the benefits,
costs, funding arrangements and adverse effects
associated with the management of pests prior to the
notification of a proposed regional pest management
plan.
The NPD specifies additional requirements for councils
proposing, assessing and
Groups and individuals who have gone above and beyond in their mahi to protect and care for the region have been honoured at this year’s Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. In an awards ceremony held in New Plymouth on Wednesday night, the eight winners and 13 recipients of ‘highly commended’ awards were congratulated for their outstanding efforts to protect and restore Taranaki’s precious taiao (natural environment). The winners include a project to protect 70km of coastline, an
Find out more about Rāhui Tīma and the highly commended awardees and their work in environmental action in the community. WinnerRāhui Tīma - For working collaboratively to take action to protect or enhance the environment, or increasing understanding of environmental issues. This project is protecting shellfish along 70km of the Taranaki coastline, from the Herekawe Stream in New Plymouth to the Taungātara Stream just south of Ōpunake. The rāhui (protection) on the marine environment is the