Taranaki Regional Council
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The Taranaki Regional Council works to ensure that Taranaki’s natural resources are sustainably managed for the benefit of our community both now and in the future. Our programmes contribute to the long-term outcomes for the region that the community has identified. The Council’s programmes are delivered in partnership with many other people and organisations and are grouped into ten significant activities
TARANAKI — The creepy-crawlies scuttling around the flower bed may not win any beauty contests, but they can be the gardener's friends.
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TARANAKI — Work starts next week on raising stopbanks along the Waiwhakaiho River at The Valley as part of a project to improve flood defences.
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TARANAKI — The international scale of Taranaki's streamside fencing and planting programme has been highlighted with a global award for the smart use of technology to back the project.
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TARANAKI — Nominations are sought for the 2011 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards.
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TARANAKI — The Waitotora River's peak level after the weekend's rainstorm was less than two metres lower than the peak recorded during the 2004 floods that devastated Waitotora township.
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TARANAKI — Bus users in Taranaki have an opportunity to air their views on the quality of the region's public transport system.
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TARANAKI — Possums in your petunias or bunnies in your broccoli? New Plymouth's Tupare is the place to be on Sunday afternoon (30 January) if your home garden is plagued by four-legged pests.
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TARANAKI — Home veggie gardeners can head to Hollard Gardens, Kaponga, on Sunday (16 January) for a free workshop offering tips and techniques for extending their harvesting seasons.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — The festive spirit lingers at New Plymouth's Tupare, where free events on Saturday 8 January will encompass wine, walking and song.
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TARANAKI — A South American bug that sucks the leaves of woolly nightshade is to be released in Taranaki to see if it thrives in this region and can effectively control the pest plant.
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TARANAKI — Recreational users of Taranaki's rivers and streams are again getting the "check clean dry" message this summer.
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TARANAKI — Mount Taranaki erupted this morning - in cyberspace.
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TARANAKI — The Taranaki Regional Council says the 2009/2010 year was one of important achievements in the face of economic challenges.
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TARANAKI — Hundreds of people have signed up for the inside story on a virtual eruption of Mount Taranaki.
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TARANAKI — Mount Taranaki is on the brink of a virtual eruption, and the people of the region are being offered a ringside seat.
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TARANAKI — The pros and cons of garden chemicals will be the subject of what promises to be clear-headed discussion at a free public workshop at Hollard Gardens, Kaponga, on Sunday (22 August).
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TARANAKI — Last year's series of hands-on gardening workshops at Hollard Gardens in Kaponga might have been the main course - but there's dessert to follow.
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TARANAKI — Additional fare discounts for frequent users of school buses in and around New Plymouth are expected to be introduced next month.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki Regional Council Chairman, David MacLeod welcomes the announcement today that the Crown will meet its obligations, as a responsible land owner, under regional pest management strategies.
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TARANAKI — Now's the time to tackle those winter jobs in the garden and catch up on other tasks that didn't get completed during the busy growing season.
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TARANAKI — New Plymouth's public transport network today got smarter.
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TARANAKI — Winners are grinners - and in the case of three lucky Taranaki farming families, they're also planters.
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TARANAKI — What number are you? New route numbers will be part of the changes when bus services in New Plymouth, Bell Block, Waitara and Oakura are revamped and expanded at the end of May.
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TARANAKI — More buses serving more areas more frequently - that's what's in store for New Plymouth commuters on 31 May as a revamped public transport network is launched.
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TARANAKI — The event will be huge but the stars of the show won't have to be.
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TARANAKI — Hollard Gardens in Kaponga will host a market day with a difference on Waitangi Day.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — The links between water, wetlands and biodiversity will be highlighted at a public field day on Sunday, 31 January.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — Air quality is New Plymouth is being continuously monitored for the next three to four months - and residents can check day-by-day results online.
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TARANAKI — Disasters commonly arrive unannounced but for the next week or so in Taranaki, the ring of the phone may serve as an advance warning.
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TARANAKI — The Taranaki Regional Council’s Emergency Management Officer, Mike Langford is joining the international relief operation in Sri Lanka, where nearly 300,000 people have been displaced by the recent conflict.
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TARANAKI — Workshops on creating colourful Christmas decorations from your garden will be held at Tupare and Hollard gardens.
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TARANAKI — Leading climate scientist Jim Salinger will have some potentially burning issues to discuss at public seminars in Taranaki on 8 December.
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TARANAKI — The Onaero to Pio Pio section of SH3 was again under scrutiny when the SH3 Working Party met recently.
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TARANAKI — Free off-peak bus travel for Super Gold Card holders will begin in Taranaki in November, coinciding with the introduction of new fare-paying technology.
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TARANAKI — The next generation of gardeners will soon be following some famous footsteps at two of Taranaki’s iconic heritage properties.
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TARANAKI — A new study has found that Taranaki is investing much more money to ensure it stays clean and green – much to the satisfaction of the region’s environmental watchdog.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — Bus passengers and drivers alike have been praised for this week’s largely smooth transition to a new bus operator in New Plymouth.
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TARANAKI — A new public transport website for the region – www.taranakibus.info – has been launched by the Taranaki Regional Council to mark the arrival of a new operator for New Plymouth’s bus services.
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TARANAKI — Trial bus services to and from smaller centres in Taranaki have been extended until June next year.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — Public bus services in New Plymouth will take on a different look from the end of June as a new Taranaki Regional Council contract takes effect.
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OPUNAKE — Farming, industry and other regional leaders joined forces in Taranaki today to mark another milestone in a large-scale environmental programme involving millions of plants and thousands of kilometres of streambanks.
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TARANAKI — The Taranaki Regional Council has called a halt to its clean-up on the Okato coastline, nearly eight months after crude oil washed ashore from a spill at the offshore Tui field.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki’s gardening public is being offered a chance to contribute to an enhancement project at one of the region’s botanic treasure troves.
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TARANAKI — A record 17 Environmental Awards are being made today by the Taranaki Regional Council, most of them for grassroots projects with strong community input.
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TARANAKI — Boaties and others using Port Taranaki this week are being urged to steer clear of booms that will be deployed as part of an oil spill response exercise.
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TARANAKI — Three Taranaki teenagers will be flying the regions flag at a national Youth Environment Forum next week.
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TARANAKI — A new paint-recycling initiative is meeting a good response in Taranaki, much to the delight of the regions environmental watchdog.
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TARANAKI — What time should new commuter bus services run? That’s the question being put to New Plymouth residents as the Taranaki Regional Council prepares for an urban passenger transport upgrade from July 1.
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TARANAKI — Danger spots on SH3 in North Taranaki are to come under close scrutiny as part of an inter-agency effort to improve the highway.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — New Plymouth will have an improved bus service from July under a newly awarded contract.
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The next Civil Defence emergency in Taranaki is sure to go off with a beep – more than 2000 of them, in fact.
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TARANAKI — A new scheme designed to make it easier for farmers to get their streambanks planted is about to be trialed in Taranaki.
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TARANAKI — The pampas is starting to flower so let the spraying begin.
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TARANAKI — The Taranaki Regional Council today declared a drought as farmers struggle to deal with the prolonged dry spell the region has been experiencing since early November.
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TARANAKI — Nominations close at the end of the month for the 2008 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards.
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TARANAKI — When you begin a construction project in the midst of what is regarded as one of New Zealand’s most interesting plant collections, it’s wise to tread thoughtfully.
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TARANAKI — Users of Taranaki’s Total Mobility taxi discount scheme are being given more time to get new ID cards.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki’s dry summer has brought increasing concern about rabbit numbers in some parts of the region.
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TARANAKI — An unusual refurbishment project in New Plymouth is being guided by the wishes of two prominent and strong-willed men – both of them long dead.
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TARANAKI — Climate change may bring new opportunities for the region’s land owners – possibilities that will be explored at free carbon farming seminars in east and south Taranaki this month.
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TARANAKI — The Taranaki Regional Council is investigating short-term and medium-term options for dust suppression at the site of the former Patea freezing works.
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TARANAKI — The Waitangi Day fire emergency at Patea showed again how well Taranaki people rally to assist when needed, says Taranaki Civil Defence Controller David Lean.
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TARANAKI — Patea people have been given the all-clear to return to homes evacuated earlier today because of a large fire at the disused freezing works.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki Medical Officer of Health Richard Hoskins says while there could be long-term problems associated with asbestos exposure, the risks to public health are very low following a one-off incident such at today’s fire at the derelict Patea meatworks.
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TARANAKI — Patea people have begun evacuating homes because of smoke from a large fire that has been burning at the disused Patea freezing works since 1am today.
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TARANAKI — The weather was hot but the subject matter far from dry as around 80 people gathered in eastern Taranaki today (February 3) to mark World Wetlands Day.
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TARANAKI — Senior Taranaki secondary school students are being given an opportunity to write their way to a national forum on the environment.
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TARANAKI — A category of natural habitat once considered a waste of good land now has its own international treaty and annual observance day, which will be marked in Taranaki on Sunday, 3 February.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki people are obviously keen on the idea of getting text alerts about impending Civil Defence emergencies.
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Now in their 16th year, the annual awards recognise outstanding environmental contributions by businesses, the agricultural sector, individuals, schools and community groups.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — The good news is that there’s now a safe and convenient place to park when visiting Tupare, the iconic public garden on the outskirts of New Plymouth.
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TARANAKI — The power of texting is being harnessed to help give Taranaki people warning of impending Civil Defence emergencies.
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TARANAKI — An identity card is being introduced for users of the Total Mobility taxi voucher scheme in Taranaki.
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TARANAKI — The Taranaki Tree Trust is going into its 16th year with a new leadership team but an unwavering environmental mission.
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TARANAKI — Kaponga farmer Tom Gibson knows all about the value of stock.
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TARANAKI — A number of weekly Taranaki bus services will take a break for Christmas but will be back with a hiss and roar from 3 January – and an increasing number of young patrons are expected.
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TARANAKI — Some Taranaki people are about to find they are harbouring unwelcome guests.
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TARANAKI — The didymo message is hitting the road in Taranaki.
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WAIKATO — When Adrian Hofmans first got into riparian management, it didn’t take long for him to decide he needed help.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki’s environmental watchdog is keeping a close eye on rainfall gauges and river levels as the current La Nina weather pattern begins to bite.
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TARANAKI — A good turnout is expected at a free North Taranaki seminar on carbon farming on Thursday.
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TARANAKI — The great ant hunt is about to begin in selected areas in and near New Plymouth.
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TARANAKI — Taranaki’s progress towards its community goals is measured in a report released today (15 November).
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TARANAKI — Land owners who can’t yet see the carbon for the trees will have an opportunity to get up to speed on emissions trading and forest sink initiatives at a Taranaki seminar at the end of November.
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TARANAKI — The newly elected Taranaki Regional Council has settled on its committee make-up for the next three years, with experienced hands at the helm.
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