OC biodiversity ranger Tom Smits deploying one of the new traps in the Cass River Valley as part of the Te Manahuna Aoraki predator control project. It is expected that the project will eventually cover 60,000 hectares of black stilt/kaki breeding area.
Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage says that properties going through the tenure review process will be assessed on a case-by-case basis until the Government passes legislation scrapping the process.
The changing landscape of the Mackenzie Basin was just one reason why Land Information New Zealand (Linz) staff advised Conservation and Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage to rethink or stop tenure review
The owners and pastoral leaseholder of Simons Pass Station in the Mackenzie Basin will have to obtain land use consent from Mackenzie District Council to push further ahead with a project to convert to dairy farming.
The decision of the Court released yesterday means that Simons Pass now needs to apply for resource consents from Mackenzie District Council to irrigate large parts of the property.
Currently Timaru, Waimate and Mackenzie district councils are three of 18 territorial authorities, from a total of 78 in New Zealand, yet to sign Local Government Leaders’ Climate Change Declaration. Timaru is, however, set to fall into line with a report from Mayor Damon Odey, being presented at Tuesday’s council meeting recommending signing.
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Public feedback is being sought on changes to the way Crown pastoral land is managed and leased.
Submissions close 5pm Friday 12 April 2019
Find out about the different steps in the tenure review process and recent activity.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has produced a report that is complacently soft on agricultural emitters, writes Rod Oram.
Last September, the Conservation Minister announced she’d asked her department (DOC) to step up efforts to control Himalayan tahr on public conservation land. The estimated population had reached 35,000, she said, way above the department’s control plan which permitted tahr numbers to reach only 10,000.