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Update January 2022 -

Above is a photo taken recently of a pair of whio with six chicks in the Toropapa not far upstream from the Toropapa flat area.

Ground based trapping has been implemented to protect the six whio chicks (and others) in the Toropapa stream. The chicks have

been seen recently and are thriving.

Toropapa Pa development is progressing with more blackberry and gorse spraying in December 2022. Historian Pat Parsons and Tipene Cottrell joined Myka and Ronnie Nuku, as well as Heitia Hiha (Kaiwhakahaere Taiao) on site to discuss the future development and share local purakau.

He Waka Eke Noa are engaging, on behalf of farmers, with the Government to ensure a fair and equitable pricing system for gas

emissions is implemented. Below are bullet points from a news release on 21 December 2022 -

• Farm gas emissions won’t be included in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS)
• Government is listening to sector and Māori views and is taking action to address concerns
• Significant improvements from the Government’s pricing proposal include -

                 - recognition that emission levy prices should be ‘the lowest possible to achieve outcomes’

                 - agreement to take social, cultural and economic impacts into account when setting the prices

                 - commitment in principle to recognise all categories of sequestration