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WRC Pest Grants Spark Community Opposition
Monday, 12 October 2020, 6:24 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group says Waikato Regional Council is fueling community discord by major funding of controversial pest control plans of private groups and introducing a new council policy of secrecy regarding increased poison operations ... More >>
Call for DOC To Postpone Coromandel 1080 Drops
Monday, 14 August 2017, 2:01 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group has formally requested temporary postponement of DOC aerial pest control operations scheduled for next month on the peninsula. More >>
UCLA Seeks Greater Limits On Gulf Commercial Fishers
Monday, 29 February 2016, 10:56 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
UCLA Seeks Greater Limits On Gulf Commercial Fishers A Coromandel conservation group has called for an expansion of the government’s proposed Hauraki Gulf Recreational Fishing Park to include all inshore areas along the Firth of Thames, around Cape ... More >>
Environment Group Backs Plan For 1000s of Traps
Friday, 29 January 2016, 2:38 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group is promoting a peninsula-wide pest control plan whereby rural property owners of both covenanted and uncovenanted land could partner with regional council to achieve improved environmental outcomes the toxin-free way. The ... More >>
Conservation Group To Oppose New Heritage Framework
Sunday, 23 August 2015, 7:23 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A leading Coromandel conservation group has announced it will challenge any government effort to introduce an overseas-directed regime for management of the peninsula’s unique natural environment and cultural assets. More >>
Landcare Group Backs Targeted Rates Review
Monday, 1 September 2014, 11:48 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group is backing efforts to revise the targeted rates imposed by Waikato Regional Council on peninsula communities for harbour and catchment management. Upper Coromandel Landcare Association spokesperson Reihana Robinson proposed the ... More >>
DOC Kiwi Removals Facing Opposition
Monday, 31 March 2014, 3:54 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
Citing conflicting statements from DoC on kiwi population health and the agency’s failure to gain proper iwi approvals, Coromandel conservation groups are seeking to halt DoC kiwi translocation from the top of the peninsula and are questioning ... More >>
Emails Prompt Expanded Call for Defunding
Monday, 13 May 2013, 3:59 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
Coromandel conservationists have expanded their call for defunding of the council-supported Waikato Biodiversity Forum (WBF) following disclosure of “extremely troubling” emails between the biodiversity group and public agencies. More >>
Funding Cutoff for Eco-Panel Urged
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 10:37 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group is calling for de-funding of the Waikato Biodiversity Forum after a critical community meeting on environmental issues set for this weekend was abruptly cancelled today by the council-supported group. More >>
DOC Refusal Draws Community Ire
Monday, 4 March 2013, 12:15 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
Residents at the top of the Coromandel Peninsula say the Department of Conservation is brazenly ignoring the health and safety concerns of its neighbours with a planned aerial toxin operation next to working farms, homes, and campgrounds around Moehau ... More >>
UCLA Charges ‘Back-Room Dealing’ On 1080 Consents
Monday, 9 August 2010, 4:17 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group has charged Waikato Regional Council with “back-room dealing” on the controversial new resource consent applications of helicopter poison companies Epro of Taupo and EcoFX of Otorohanga for permission to drop poisons into ... More >>
Conservation Group To Push For Tight 1080 Consent
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 12:01 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group is welcoming shortened terms for 1080 resource consents, but is demanding that the public have input before final permissions are issued and conditions for the poison operations are established. More >>
Campaign Seeks To Halt 10-Year 1080 Consents
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 10:08 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
A Coromandel conservation group is spear-heading a national coalition to oppose the granting of 10-year, non-notified resource consent renewals to two helicopter companies for discharge of 1080 toxin into Waikato streams and waterways. More >>
UCLA Urges Fast Track For TCDC 1080 Policy Review
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 5:16 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
The Upper Coromandel Landcare Association (UCLA) is urging that a proposed review of TCDC policy on aerial use of toxin 1080 be fast-tracked by council at its meeting in Thames this week. TCDC councillors will consider a proposal by Councillor Dal ... More >>
1080 "Road Show" Hits Regional Council Circuit
Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:57 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
In a bold new public relations campaign, an All Star team of New Zealand's top promoters of the use of 1080 has been assembled to lobby regional councils for expanded use of the poison. More >>
Calls for Rollback of EW Pest Strategy
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 5:01 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
The Upper Coromandel Landcare Association (UCLA) today called upon the newly elected Environment Waikato Regional Council to immediately withdraw its controversial pest management strategy, in its entirety, as one of Council¹s first orders of business. More >>
Call for Royal Commission on 1080
Monday, 13 August 2007, 4:28 pm | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
In the wake of the Environmental Risk Management Authority's report, Monday, on 1080, a Coromandel-based environmental group has kicked off a nation-wide campaign to press for a Royal Commission to evaluate New Zealand's use of the controversial toxin, ... More >>
UCLA Demands Resignation of EW bosses.
Wednesday, 1 August 2007, 10:12 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
Reacting to what it calls a failure of good governance at Waikato Regional Council, a Coromandel conservation group today demanded the resignation of both the Chair of the Waikato Regional Council, Jenny Vernon and the CEO of Environment Waikato, ... More >>
“100% Pure New Zealand” Tourism Brand Under Fire
Monday, 23 July 2007, 10:02 am | Upper Coromandel Landcare Association
Tourism New Zealand’s iconic “100% Pure New Zealand” brand, designed to attract environmentally conscious inbound travellers from around the globe, may fall victim to the government’s own pest control policies. More >>
