Nelson City Council

Deploy 245T pest management recognising the bush will recover from collateral damage much quicker if the killers are killed.

Get serious with poachers, including customary rights, making them pay dearly and using name-and-shame to curb behaviour and dignify NZ's wildlife.

Reinvent better waste management and resourcefulness by running a competition to harness inventive, creative, logical, number-eight-wire NZ.

Improve air quality by reviewing the burning of fossil fuels and wood in residential areas.

Increase riverside planting and protect forests from browsing animals.

Protect the marine environment by exploring alternatives to bottom trawling.

Expand waste reduction through reuse, recycling and composting initiatives.

Restore native habitats to boost biodiversity and protect vulnerable species.

Strengthen pollution controls to keep air, land and coast clean.

Increase public adoption of the Antenno app for reporting environmental harm to have more eyes monitoring the environment.

Stop pollution rather than just reduce it by demanding that appliances be fixable and preventing parcel waste on purchased goods including food.

Support waste management initiatives such as the soft plastic trial pick-up and promote the public to instil a circular economy.

Communicate, isolate and control sources of pollution clearly.

Control biodiversity through constant pest and invasive species management via consistently funded council policies.

Enforce and communicate strictly the rules for separation and disposal of waste.

Continue protecting mature native forest to retain and improve biodiversity, as well as reduce pests and prevent weeds establishing.

Continue pest trapping programmes.

Remove wilding pines and restart Old Man's Beard eradication.