Press Release – Auckland Council
Mouse attempts to set sail but lucks out!
A mouse, hoping to spend a relaxing weekend on an island in the Hauraki Gulf, had its plans derailed when it was spotted emerging from a passenger’s luggage and scurrying off into the confines of a pest free warranted vessel.
“This is a good reminder of why biosecurity practises are so important and why we ask passengers and boaties to check their gear carefully before heading out onto the gulf,” says Liz Brooks, Biosecurity Manager for the Hauraki Gulf.
“Most of the gulf islands are pest free and home to a wide range of rare and endangered birds. The “check, clean, close” message is a serious one and there to help protect those native birds.’
Press Release – Auckland Council Mouse attempts to set sail but lucks out! A mouse, hoping to spend a relaxing weekend on an island in the Hauraki Gulf, had its plans derailed when it was spotted emerging from a passengers luggage and scurrying off into the confines of a pest free warranted …
Mouse attempts to set sail but lucks out!
A mouse, hoping to spend a relaxing weekend on an island in the Hauraki Gulf, had its plans derailed when it was spotted emerging from a passenger’s luggage and scurrying off into the confines of a pest free warranted vessel.
Sustainable home loans through Waikato Regional Council
15 Apr, 2021 11:43 PM
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CUTTING OUT WASTE: Luke Baxter built a Whangamata house that is the Coromandel s first Homestar rated home under the New Zealand Green Building Council system.
CUTTING OUT WASTE: Luke Baxter built a Whangamata house that is the Coromandel s first Homestar rated home under the New Zealand Green Building Council system.
Bay of Plenty Times
Low interest loans to make sustainable improvements like water tank and solar power installations, clean heating, insulation, double-glazing, ventilation and septic tank upgrades are being proposed in Waikato Regional Council s long-term plan.
The impetus for including the scheme in consultation out now came from Thames-Coromandel representative Denis Tegg.
Source: Auckland Council
A feral pig control programme on Waiheke has successfully reached a point where eradication is possible thanks to support from Ngāti Pāoa and other landowners and the Natural Environment Targeted Rate.
The programme is part of Auckland Council’s work under the Regional Pest Management Plan 2020-2030, aiming to prevent adverse effects from feral pigs on the island’s environment and economy, and to protect human health and taonga.
Auckland Council Senior Conservation Advisor Deryn Dromgoole says the feral pig control programme has been undertaken strategically across Waiheke over the last four years and that council has worked closely with landowners to achieve results.
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 4:04 pm
Consultation on Waikato Regional Council’s proposed
rulebook for pest management and the supporting Biosecurity
Strategic Plan will be held in April.
After robust
discussion about various pests in the region, the council
today approved the proposed Regional Pest Management Plan
for public consultation in April, with the plan to
eventually replace the current Regional Pest Management Plan
2014-2024.
The current RPMP was reviewed due to
substantial changes to the Biosecurity Act 1993 (the Act) in
2012 and because it’s not consistent with some of the
provisions of the national policy direction for pest
management implemented in 2015.
The accompanying