Regional Pest Management Strategy Annual Report 2008/09
The Regional Pest Management Strategy (RPMS) 2008 to 2013 details which plants and animals are declared pests in the Waikato region. It explains why they are pests, and outlines how each pest will be managed over a five year period. The RPMS Annual Report 2008/09 reports progress made in implementing the strategy in the 2008/09 financial year.
RPMS Annual Report 2008/09
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RPMS Annual Report 2008/09
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Table of contents
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Chairman’s Comments |
iii |
| |
Executive Summary |
v |
| 1 |
Introduction |
1 |
| 1.1 |
Background |
1 |
| 1.2 |
RPMS implementation programmes |
1 |
| 1.3 |
Giving effect to the Strategy |
3 |
| 1.4 |
Report format |
4 |
| 2 |
Progress in implementing the Strategy |
5 |
| 2.1 |
The Financials |
5 |
| 2.2 |
Production Pest Management |
6 |
| 2.2.1 |
Direct control |
6 |
| 2.2.2 |
Compliance |
7 |
| 2.3 |
Public Threat Pest Management |
8 |
| 2.3.1 |
Plant pests – compliance |
8 |
| 2.3.2 |
Animal pests – compliance |
9 |
| 2.4 |
Environmental Pest Management |
9 |
| 2.4.1 |
Direct control – animal pests |
9 |
| 2.4.2 |
Direct control – pest plants |
10 |
| 2.4.3 |
Compliance – plant pests |
14 |
| 2.4.4 |
Regional priority catchment protection |
15 |
| 2.4.5 |
Regional priority possum control |
18 |
| 2.4.6 |
Regional priority biodiversity sites |
23 |
| 2.5 |
Potential Pest Management |
24 |
| 2.5.1 |
Potential plant pests |
24 |
| 2.5.2 |
Potential animal pests |
25 |
| 2.5.3 |
National Partnerships |
26 |
| 2.6 |
Crown RPMS obligations |
28 |
| 2.6.1 |
The Crown, the Biosecurity Act and regional councils expectations |
28 |
| 2.6.2 |
Department of Conservation funded projects – 2008/09 |
28 |
| 3 |
Case Studies |
31 |
| 3.1 |
Case study one: New rookeries to be blacklisted |
31 |
| 3.2 |
Case Study Two: Woolly nightshade is a woolly nightmare in Southern Franklin District |
33 |