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Environment Bay of Plenty is the regional council for the Bay of Plenty region. Back in 1989, the Government took 25 organisations and turned them into the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, now called Environment Bay of Plenty. As caretakers of our land, air and water, Environment Bay of Plenty monitors the effects of human activities on our environment. We also promote the sustainable management of our natural and physical resources for present and future generations.
WAIHI — Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council and iwi collective Te Wahapū o Waihī have partnered to return 30ha of low-lying farmland to coastal wetland in an effort to improve the ecological health of Waihī Estuary.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A collective effort to develop an online mapping system shows the extent voluntary and community groups in the Western Bay of Plenty are going to in helping make the region predator free.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Up to $10,000 is available for students through the He Toka Tū Moana Scholarship.
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BAY OF PLENTY — An encouraging start is how Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is describing the progress it is making towards reducing corporate greenhouse gas emissions during the past two years.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Two aquatic weeds, hornwort and egeria densa, have been found for the first time in Rotorua's Lake Rotomā - inside Bay of Plenty Regional Council's weed cordon.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Sustainability and economic development in the Bay of Plenty are both on the rise, but safety on the roads is still a major issue for the region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Wednesday, 6 February 2013 5:45 p.m.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Anyone wanting to make a submission on proposed changes to Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Onsite Effluent Treatment Plan has until next Wednesday, 30 January, to make their submission to the Regional Council.
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BAY OF PLENTY — It's never too early to start thinking about sustainability - just ask three Bay of Plenty Enviroschools that have started the new year with awards recognising this.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Volunteer maritime warden Barry Benton is pretty much on duty 24/7.
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BAY OF PLENTY — An Information Sharing protocol has been developed between three of the Bay of Plenty region's biggest freight movers in an effort to increase efficiencies and productivity across the region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Don Herdman has been spreading the word about water safety for 25 years and reckons wives and mothers are the best people to target to ensure water users know the rules.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Speeding jet skis and boats have not made a good start to the summer on Rotorua's lakes.
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BAY OF PLENTY — At this time of year bar entrances in the Eastern Bay of Plenty traditionally become shallow and Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Eastern Bay Harbour Master Brian Spake urges boaties to take more caution when crossing them.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Whitewater kayaking requires nerves of steel but Olympian Luuka Jones is the first to admit she gets nervous when she's kayaking in the presence of jet skis.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Former Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Michael Cullen is one of two new appointments to the Bay of Connections Governance Group.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Tauranga Harbour Master has carried out a survey of the Bowentown Bar area and identified some significant changes to the shape and extent of the outer banks of the bar.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A Waikato demolition company and a Matakana Island dairy farmer were fined a total of more than $70,000 in the Tauranga District Court yesterday on pollution charges in two separate cases brought by Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Tauranga Bayhopper buses carried a record number of passengers in the month of November this year.
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WAIKATO — A collision between a power boat and a jet ski in the Waikato region last Friday has highlighted the need for people to take care on the waterways this summer, says the Western Bay of Plenty harbour master, Jennifer Roberts.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The ways in which the region's volunteers can help Bay of Plenty Regional Council achieve its council outcomes are to be investigated early next year.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Five people have presented to Rotorua Hospital with symptoms of toxic shellfish poisoning with a further two unrelated cases seen at Tauranga Hospital. Each person affected had eaten shellfish collected from the coastline between Mount Maunganui and Papamoa.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Specially designed cones that warn children of spraying in orchards have proved a hit with the Te Puna community.
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TAURANGA — The Port of Tauranga is well-placed to accommodate future demand and growth according to a report released this week on the upper North Island ports.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council staff are concerned some residents may be treating Dama wallabies as pets instead of pests.
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OPOTIKI — Ōpōtiki dairy farmers Riverlock Farms Limited, and directors Ian Brown and Geoffrey Brown, have been fined a total of $74,000 plus costs on charges brought by Bay of Plenty Regional Council of discharging contaminated underpass liquid to waterways in October 2011.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Needing assistance from the Whakatane-based New Zealand Response Team 17 isn't an event anyone wants to happen, at any time.
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