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Issue
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Proposed
Approach
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Supports Y/N
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Comment
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Cats
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To continue management of cats in areas of high
biodiversity value as part of integrated pest control and potentially for an
increased number of sites.
To provide greater certainty cats will be defined as pests
in these circumstances if they are not able to be identified by microchip or
other means as being owned.
Cats will continue to be controlled on areas of public
land where threatened species are being protected (regardless of whether they
are owned or unowned) e.g. the open sanctuaries and kokako / kiwi management
area in the Hunua Ranges.
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YES
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The negative impacts have been
well documented on offshore islands, where there are records of native
species disappearing from islands since the arrival of cats, and marked
native species recovery after cats have been eradicated.
Cats that are not given
regular preventative treatments can pose a public health risk through the
spread of zoonotic diseases (e.g.
toxocariasis or
toxoplasmosis).
Feral cats may also carry and
suffer from feline enteritis or conjunctivitis
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Possums
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Landscape scale progressive containment programme to
manage possums.
Rural management would be integrated with management in
high value biodiversity areas.
This could be achieved using a targeted rate across rural
Auckland.
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YES
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Not only do possums affect
indigenous
fauna by competing for limited
food resources, they also directly prey on native birds
and invertebrates, including
kereru, north island kokako and käkä.
Possums are also the main
vector for bovine tuberculosis.
Possums are therefore one of
the most damaging pests in New Zealand.
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Widespread pest plants
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Site-led programme for parks with significant ecological
areas to manage a suite of up to 30 pest plants per site to an extent that
protects the values of the parkland. Includes use of rules in buffer
areas around parkland.
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YES
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New ban of sale
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Phasing out the sale of approximately 50 new plant pests
and 13 new animal pests in addition to those currently identified.
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YES
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Road corridor weeds
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Road corridor enforcement targeted to buffers around
site-led programmes to maximise effectiveness.
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YES
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More education around pests
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Provision of information and advice on pest
identification, impacts and control and increased communications around
pathway management for a suite of species.
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YES
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The importance of community pest control
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Provision of advice and support to community groups
undertaking pest control with priority given to activity in or around
biodiversity focus areas and taking advantage of defendable landscape
features such as islands and peninsulas.
The plan will support the Pest Free Auckland initiative,
which focuses on community empowerment.
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YES
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Wasps
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Sustained control programme for the whole region.
Provision of information and advice on pest animal
identification, impacts, control and prevention of spread.
Continue facilitating the development of improved wasp
control methods that can be used by the public.
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YES
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Wasps compete for sugar
resources with nectar feeding birds and insects. Wasps are major predators of
invertebrates and they may compete for the invertebrate prey with
insectivorous birds and other predacious
invertebrates.
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Mynas
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Sustained control programme for the whole region.
Provision of information and advice on pest animal
identification, impacts, control and prevention of spread.
Ban of sale and distribution.
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YES
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Mynas are territorial birds
that show aggression only to other birds within their territory.
They are also known to evict
other birds from their nests and eat eggs, chicks, invertebrates and lizards.
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Magpies
(addition)
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To be included in a control programme.
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YES
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Magpies are territorial
birds that show aggression only to other birds within their territory or that
may pose a threat to their territory.
They can be a nuisance
during the breeding season, swooping on and occasionally attacking humans,
especially children.
There is anecdotal evidence
that magpies affect native birds by excluding them from breeding territories
and by predating native bird chicks and eggs to feed to their own young.
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Rats / Mice
(addition)
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Sustained control programme in
areas of High Conservation value, as a component of integrated
site-led pest management
programmes.
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YES
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To control the loss of inanga eggs.
Mice compete with native
species for food sources.
Also prey on native insects
(such as weta), lizards, eggs, bird chicks and coastal areas of Weymouth,
Totara Park.
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Mustelid
(addition)
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Sustained control programme in areas of High Conservation
value i.e. Totara Park– ferrets, stoat and weasel.
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YES
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To control the loss of inanga eggs (whitebait) in areas
of restoration i.e. Puhinui Stream.
Mustelids are known to attack native birds, lizards,
frogs, weta and a range of other fauna.
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Rabbits
(addition)
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Sustained control programme for the whole region.
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YES
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To control damage and
spread of disease that can cause considerable physical and economic damage.
Commercial gardens are
particularly vulnerable to rabbit attack - nibbled or chewed crops are
unsaleable.
On farms, rabbits compete
with stock for pasture, ten rabbits can eat as much pasture as one sheep.
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Ducks
(addition)
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To be included in a control programme - culling of ducks
in coastal areas affected by avian faecal pollution.
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YES
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To control the avian faecal
levels at Weymouth beach - which has created high pollution at the
beach.
This has required the beach
to be closed to the public for the past 6 years.
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