Environment Canterbury
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.
Enforce environmental rules fairly and consistently to reduce pollution and protect biodiversity.
Increase monitoring and reporting so communities can track environmental progress and hold council accountable.
Target pest plants and animals through coordinated, cost-effective regional control programmes.
Improve braided river habitats by giving the rivers more room to meander, more weed removal, predator control and increasing minimum flows.
Strengthen monitoring and compliance to ensure that resource consent conditions are met and environmental outcomes achieved.
Support local organisations, iwi and landowners to protect and restore native forests and wetlands with fencing, planting and pest control.
Ensure ECan, as an organisation of 920 staff, makes an impact on climate change by finding efficiencies within its own waste streams.
Increase the fines for bad players who knowingly damage the receiving environment. For our children, do better.
Support catchment groups to collect data on freshwater health and continue to fund pest management, focusing on eco-corridors and regeneration.
Ensure that public transport systems, including buses and the Diamond Harbour ferry, are efficient and suitable for people who use them.
Work with catchment groups, including farmers and local community members, to improve water quality.
Work with conservation groups to support existing community-run pest management and tree-planting schemes to protect biodiversity.
Enforce environmental rules fairly and consistently to reduce pollution and protect biodiversity.
Increase monitoring and reporting so communities can track environmental progress and hold council accountable.
Target pest plants and animals through coordinated, cost-effective regional control programmes.
Improve braided river habitats by giving the rivers more room to meander, more weed removal, predator control and increasing minimum flows.
Strengthen monitoring and compliance to ensure that resource consent conditions are met and environmental outcomes achieved.
Support local organisations, iwi and landowners to protect and restore native forests and wetlands with fencing, planting and pest control.
Ensure ECan, as an organisation of 920 staff, makes an impact on climate change by finding efficiencies within its own waste streams.
Increase the fines for bad players who knowingly damage the receiving environment. For our children, do better.
Support catchment groups to collect data on freshwater health and continue to fund pest management, focusing on eco-corridors and regeneration.
Ensure that public transport systems, including buses and the Diamond Harbour ferry, are efficient and suitable for people who use them.
Work with catchment groups, including farmers and local community members, to improve water quality.
Work with conservation groups to support existing community-run pest management and tree-planting schemes to protect biodiversity.
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