Projects
The following are examples of projects that Natural Solutions
have completed.
Policy and Planning
Auckland City Council – Report on the implementation
of a change in policy for rates remission on
covenanted land with management plans.
Department of Conservation – Preparation of a
metadata inventory for all coastal-related resources
in the Waikato Conservancy.
Environment Waikato – Ecological and planning
implications for coastal wetlands with projected sea level
rise - a pilot Study in Coromandel Harbour.
Goldstone Property – Ecological overview of the
implications of a proposed change in District Plan zoning
on a private property at Omokoroa.
Ministry for the Environment – Peer review of
the Indigenous Biodiversity Guidance Note for
the Quality Planning website.
Thames-Coromandel District Council – A guide
for staff assessment of natural feature certification under the
Conservation Lot Rule of the District Plan.
Thames-Coromandel District Council – Ecological
assessment of the Natural Character of the Coromandel
Peninsula.
Ecological Assessment
Environment Waikato – Ecological assessment of
the natural features on Pungapunga Station against Key
Ecological Site criteria.
Environment Waikato – Assessment of ecological
effects for consent application to control saltwater paspalum
with herbicide in Wharekawa Harbour.
Otorohanga District Council – Intertidal survey
and ecological assessment for a proposed seawall
at Aotea Village.
Ports of Tauranga – Dive monitoring of sea
bed levels alongside a translocated boulder bank in Tauranga
Harbour.
Private Landowners – Ecological assessments for
subdivision development proposals under the Thames-Coromandel
District Plan.
Thames-Coromandel District Council – Intertidal
ecological survey for a proposed wharf redevelopment
at Whangapoua Harbour.
Restoration Management
Department of Conservation – Develop with landowners
a brown teal (pateke) habitat enhancement plan
at Port Charles.
Department of Conservation – Survey, control and
eradication of environmental weeds on mainland
and island sites.
Forest & Bird – Prepare an AEE and floodplain
restoration management plan for the lower Kauaeranga
River in Thames.
Orua Wetland Estate – Design a wetland
restoration management plan for a Hot Water Beach subdivision
and supervise the implementation.
Pacific Estate – Design a riparian planting
plan for the lowered Taputapuatea Stream Esplanade Reserve
at Whitianga and supervise the implementation.
Pungapunga Station – Develop an animal
pest management strategy for the property at Whangapoua.
Tauranga City Council – Prepare an AEE and consent
application for saltwater paspalum control at Matua Estuary, and
undertake the weed control work.
State of the Environment Monitoring
Department of Conservation – Landscape survey
of environmental weeds in the northern Waikato
Conservancy.
Department of Conservation – Assist with population
monitoring for several kiwi listen surveys on
Coromandel Peninsula.
Environment Waikato – Part of a team assessing
sites of Significant Natural Areas within the
Thames-Coromandel District.
Environment Waikato – Regional environmental indicator
monitoring of stream invertebrate fauna.
Environment Waikato – Survey and mapping
of estuarine vegetation communities in harbours throughout
the Waikato.
Forest & Bird – Listening survey for remnant
kokako populations in the Kaimai-Mamaku State
Forest Park.
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