Otago Regional Council

Adopt a zero food waste program, reduce landfill through educating our community about better processes for waste management.

Support community gardens and food gathering programs, helping them to engage with more people and resources to support food sovereignty.

Reduce the use of 1080. Adopt pest management practices that are targeted and provide more access for community to healthy activities.

Identify, establish and promote native plantings and wetlands to improve biodiversity.

Financially support significant regional projects such as the Halo project to improve biodiversity and pest control.

Build on the biodiversity mapping project and constructively work with landowners to improve biodiversity coverage and corridors.

Ensure the Otago Regional Council has the resources available to clean up our rivers, lakes and wetlands and restore natural habitats. Whenever possible.

Ensure additional resources are available for increased monitoring of land and water quality and breaches.

Financially support community groups involved in habitat restoration and other conservation projects.

Encourage the switch to electric buses.

Encourage better enforcement of maximum levels for nitrates, phosphates and E. coli in rivers.

Encourage better biodiversity and rabbit control.

Increase the ORC ECO Fund to allow local voluntary groups to achieve more of their valuable work.

Boost control of wilding pines to protect natural landscapes.

Improve air quality in Dunedin and other towns to protect the health of our people.

Reintroduce air quality improvement work that has been put on hold, with a focus on eliminating reliance on coal burners.

Strengthen existing pest control efforts, with a particular focus on rabbits.

Restore riparian and wetland biodiversity to key land and water habitats.

Encourage pest control with less reliance on poisons and more reliance on humane trapping and hunting.

Encourage the refundable deposit scheme for glass recycling which will lead to less litter and landfill.

Support waste buster initiatives.

Maximise profits for my colleagues – the fertiliser, coal, dairy, and irrigation businesses. Increase production at all costs.

Eliminate native biodiversity to increase the abundance of cows, so I – Slime the Nitrate Monster – can consume and expand my domination.

Follow current Otago Regional Council councillor recommendations to use delay tactics for regulation; Continue to limit monitoring and reporting for my humans.

Protect our remaining native ecosystems. Protecting existing native habitats provides better bang for buck than restoring lost areas.

Establish priorities for investment. Move from scatter gun to a strategic investment work plan for environmental enhancement/protection.

Follow through on compliance. Move beyond awareness of problems to delivery of outcomes. Sustained awareness and action on rules.

Support efforts to reforest native and wilderness forestry areas by offering rates discounts for permanent forestry (not to be cut down).

Establish composting facilities to turn waste like stock truck effluent and logging slash into high quality biologically complete compost.

Support soil regeneration to increase biodiversity of microbial soil life and of crop and insect diversity and biomass.

Increase funding for environmental monitoring to gain a better picture of environment health.

Increase environmental compliance auditing and enforce non-compliances to encourage good practice.