Biodiversity Strategy 2008
Taranaki Regional Council Biodiversity Strategy.
Taranaki Regional Council Biodiversity Strategy.
apply to help defray costs. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Karl Rossiter with names and numbers: Email: karl@rossiter.co.nz / Telephone or Text: 021 425 010. Seating is limited. Pukeiti Visitors Visitor numbers continue to grow. An estimated 85,000 visited in the last twelve months. Reviews last month on the TripAdvisor website by 265 travellers rated the visit as: Excellent 72% Very Good 24% Average 3% Poor 1% Café Hours The Rain Forest Café is now open during
help with your planning. Once you are ready to get started, the Council can help with ongoing advice and support and help source the monitoring and trapping equipment required. Why do we need to control introduced predators? New Zealand has the highest rate of threatened species in the world. Around 81% of our birds, 88% of our reptiles and 72% of our freshwater fish are endangered. Most of our native species are not found anywhere else in the world. New Zealand has extraordinary
99.5% of Taranaki’s dairy farmers. Over 4.3m plants have been supplied over the life of the programme. • The Taranaki Regional Council has a comprehensive programme to monitor all resource consent holders, which consistently reveals a generally high rate of compliance with consent conditions across all sectors. • Non-compliance with consent conditions, and pollution complaints are thoroughly investigated by Council and appropriate enforcement action is taken. The
lower shed temperature reduces the rate at which odours are released. It also reduces microbial activity, which is a significant cause of odour. When shed temperatures are being optimised, these factors should be considered. bb) Contingency planning To safeguard against the consequences of a high mortality situation, a contingency plan for the rapid disposal of very large numbers of birds should be prepared e.g. access to off site incineration or prior
closer to achieving sustainable development of the region’s resources. 1.1.4. Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the
as those between 30 and 180 kHz. page 132013 Code of Conduct for Minimising Acoustic Disturbance to Marine Mammals 3.8.8 Acoustic source tests Seismic source tests will be subject to the relevant soft start procedures for each survey level, though the 20-minute minimum duration does not apply. Where possible, power should be built up gradually to the required test level at a rate not exceeding that of a normal soft start. Level 1 and 2 seismic source tests with a maximum
regression or the rate ratio for Poisson regression. For both regression types, the strength is calculated by exponentiating the regression coefficient, where values less than 1 indicate a decreasing temporal trend, values equal to 1 indicate no change, and values greater than 1 indicate an increasing temporal trend. Finally, given the large number of analyses performed, we make inferences mainly for those species for which we obtained a significant temporal trend. 5 Results
observations of the experts. Importantly, there are fundamental changes proposed to the poultry farm operations, which will reduce the impacts of the air discharges applied for in this Application, including2: (a) the discharge consent is sought for a free-range broiler operation with a reduced stocked rate of a maximum of 15 birds per square metre (61, 020 birds); (b) roof fans with misting devices will be installed on the roof of the existing sheds (and will be at least 100m from the
the region’s resources. 1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holder, this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative …