Urban trappers are luring New Plymouth rats with a range of tempting flavours, from peanut butter to avocado, macadamia butter and pineapple lumps. Urban trappers are experimenting with a range of flavours to find the best bait to catch rats as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, a region-wide project protecting native wildlife and plants with predator control on urban, rural and conservation land – it’s the largest project of its kind in New Zealand and supported by about $12 million from
describes the monitoring programme implemented by the
Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental and consent compliance
performance during the period under review. The report also details the results of the monitoring
undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of the Company’s activities.
During the monitoring period, Stanley Bros Trust demonstrated a level of environmental and
administrative performance that both required improvement.
The Company
Buses on all Citylink urban routes (New Plymouth, Bell Block, Waitara) are equipped with bike racks. If you’re taking the bus, it’s free to use the bike rack. Cyclists are responsible for loading and unloading their bike.
The bike rack takes two bikes at a time.
Racks are designed to carry bikes with wheels larger than 16in or 40cm.
The maximum insured value of any bike on the rack is $1500.
Also see information for eBike users. Loading your bike
Step 1: Squeeze bike rack handle up to release
Hundreds of urban trappers lining up to help restore New Plymouth's biodiversity have attracted a talented Taranaki ecologist to help lead Towards Predator-Free Taranaki. Okato-based Toby Shanley was recently appointed Towards Predator-Free Taranaki Project Manager. He returned to Taranaki after working on several predator-free islands in the past 9 years. The former biodiversity ranger for the Department of Conservation has seen first-hand the amazing impact removing predators has on
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List of Tables
Table 2-1: Consents held by RDC that will expire in 2019 ............................................................................ 22
Table 2-2: Consents held by TBP with expiry dates between 2023-2029 ................................................. 23
Table 2-3: Key operational requirements stipulated by Discharge Permit 2049-4 .................................. 24
Table 2-4: Compliance Monitoring results from Taranaki Regional Council
Two oil and gas contractors have made a career u-turn into Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, the region-wide project helping native wildlife and plants. North Taranaki’s Mike Avey and Chris Halcombe are currently helping farmers in rural New Plymouth use new trapping technology to remove stoats, as part of a large-scale, rural trial, attempted for the first time in Taranaki. Stoats are skilled killers, introduced by people in the 1880s, and travel large distances to eat baby birds and eggs. The
permits, and in implementing monitoring programmes,
the Council is recognising the comprehensive meaning of ‘effects’ in as much as is appropriate for each
activity. Monitoring programmes are not only based on existing permit conditions, but also on the
obligations of the RMA to assess the effects of the exercise of consents. In accordance with Section 35 of
the RMA, the Council undertakes compliance monitoring for consents and rules in regional plans, and
maintains an overview of the performance
Executive summary
OMV New Zealand Ltd (the Company) operates the Maui Production Station located on Tai Road, Oaonui, in
the Ngapirau catchment. This report for the period July 2022 to June 2023 describes the monitoring
programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s
environmental and consent compliance performance during the period under review. The report also details
the results of the monitoring undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of
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The easements created by Transfer 454829.14 are subject to Section 243 (a) Resource Management Act 1991
Subject to a right (in gross) to convey water over parts marked D, F & H on DP 19328 in favour of The New
Plymouth District Council created by Transfer 454829.15 - produced 9.10.1998 at 9.50 am and entered 24.11.1998
at 9.00 am
The easements created by Transfer 454829.15 are subject to Section 243 (a) Resource Management Act 1991
Citylink school bus services in North Taranaki will be reduced from Monday, 23 March, due to reduced numbers of available drivers, following advice from Government for over-70s not to go to work. The number of school buses operating in the mornings will be reduced as follows: Waitara/Urenui/Tikorangi - 3 buses instead of 4
Bell Block/Lepperton - 3 buses instead of 5
Oakura/Omata - 2 buses instead of 4
Some Bell Block students will have to wait at stops while buses drop students off in New