Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 11:08 am
The Tāmaki Makaurau – Auckland Conservation Board
(ACB) is disappointed with the news that an application for
a resource consent for a new Class 1 landfill in the Wayby
Valley, north of Auckland, has been approved.
The
majority of the Hearing Panel, charged by the Auckland
Council with hearing the evidence and submissions, were
satisfied, subject to some amendments, that the effects on
the environment of the construction and operation of the new
landfill are acceptable and consistent with all the relevant
planning and strategic documents guiding the use and
development of landfills in the Auckland region. The Panel
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Environmental water flow reaches wetland triggering big breeding event for rare, endangered bitterns
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An Australian little bittern chick sits with an unhatched egg in the Yanga National Park.
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A bittern breeding boom in a New South Wales Riverina wetlands is being heralded as a significant step forward for the secretive water bird species.
Key points:
Environmental water is being heralded as the catalyst for the breeding event
Up to 350 gigalitres of environmental water is likely to be made available for the Murrumbidgee Valley in 2021
Last week, during a research trip to Yanga National Park on the Lowbidgee floodplain near Balranald, wildlife ecologist Matt Herring discovered the nests and live chicks of both the endangered Australasian bittern and the near-threatened Australian little bittern.