Mayor of Nelson
Environment and biodiversity
Protecting the environment and managing natural resources is a key responsibility of regional councils. Regional councils are often also involved in pest control and resource management.
Environment and biodiversity
Protecting the environment and managing natural resources is a key responsibility of regional councils. Regional councils are often also involved in pest control and resource management.
Strengthen council's partnership with the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary to further support its mission of returning nature to Nelson.
Implement Nelson City Council's draft ecological restoration plans to restore the biodiversity of parks and reserves.
Support backyard trapping through better promotion of Nelson City Council's subsidised trap scheme and offer residents incentives for doing predator control.
Remove old mans beard and other climbing weeds that are strangling our established native tree canopies on our reserves.
Enable our experienced hunters back into our back country reserves for goat and pig culling where practical.
Do more to protect our coastal and marine environment, which has been overlooked.
Explore and share opportunities/paradigm changing possibilities presented by adopting a holistic and equitable alternative economic system.
Continue ongoing Nelson City Council schemes. Join in community projects. Promote expansion of existing efforts. Invite more discussion.
Consult widely, and deeply, with the community to establish our combined priorities and the ambitions and limitations of all our society.
Transition council's commercial pine forestry into native bush, providing carbon sequestration, greater biodiversity and resilience.
Adopt a catchment-wide approach to ecological regeneration, utilising halo effects to better connect residents with our native bird life.
Increase council support for biodiversity improvements and pest management of invasive flora and fauna, and support for the Brook Sanctuary.
Back the Brook/Waimarama Sanctuary with funding support for their vision of returning kiwi and Tuatara to Nelson.
Expand council's recycling support into the area of construction waste in partnership with the Nelson Environment Centre.
Encourage businesses and households to join pest control work so as to support the Nelson Nature programme of restoring biodiversity.
Strengthen council's partnership with the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary to further support its mission of returning nature to Nelson.
Implement Nelson City Council's draft ecological restoration plans to restore the biodiversity of parks and reserves.
Support backyard trapping through better promotion of Nelson City Council's subsidised trap scheme and offer residents incentives for doing predator control.
Remove old mans beard and other climbing weeds that are strangling our established native tree canopies on our reserves.
Enable our experienced hunters back into our back country reserves for goat and pig culling where practical.
Do more to protect our coastal and marine environment, which has been overlooked.
Explore and share opportunities/paradigm changing possibilities presented by adopting a holistic and equitable alternative economic system.
Continue ongoing Nelson City Council schemes. Join in community projects. Promote expansion of existing efforts. Invite more discussion.
Consult widely, and deeply, with the community to establish our combined priorities and the ambitions and limitations of all our society.
Transition council's commercial pine forestry into native bush, providing carbon sequestration, greater biodiversity and resilience.
Adopt a catchment-wide approach to ecological regeneration, utilising halo effects to better connect residents with our native bird life.
Increase council support for biodiversity improvements and pest management of invasive flora and fauna, and support for the Brook Sanctuary.
Back the Brook/Waimarama Sanctuary with funding support for their vision of returning kiwi and Tuatara to Nelson.
Expand council's recycling support into the area of construction waste in partnership with the Nelson Environment Centre.
Encourage businesses and households to join pest control work so as to support the Nelson Nature programme of restoring biodiversity.
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