Natural environment
What we are planning for our natural environment in the Annual Plan 2025/2026.
In the 2025/2026 financial year, we plan to:
- meet our obligations set out in the Regional Pest Management Plan 2020-2030
- increase funding and extend the Natural Environment Targeted Rate to deliver:
- a plan to help us manage pests like rats and stoats
- animal management activities
- pathogen control to help prevent diseases from spreading
- activities to help restore our environment
- continue to manage kauri dieback disease to protect our kauri forests
- deliver a marine biosecurity education and engagement programme including increased monitoring of new and existing marine pests like caulerpa seaweed
- open more community recycling centres to grow our resource recovery network.
We also plan to complete the roll-out of our regionwide kerbside rubbish collection service. We will introduce remaining areas to rates-funded rubbish collections including Franklin and Rodney, later this year.
Have your say
We want to know what you think about our proposals for this annual plan.
You should know
The information on this page is an edited version of the Annual Plan 2025/2026 Consultation Document.
You can find more information about how our Long-term Plan 2024-2034 is progressing on page 6 of the Annual Plan 2025/2026 Consultation Document [PDF 8MB].
