News and notices

Read the latest news and public notices, including our fortnightly Newsline.

Parks, reserves and track closures

Four reserves closed to vehicles
Due to ongoing issues with damage, the following reserves are closed to vehicles:

Firestones Reserve (Lee Valley)
Twin Bridges Reserve (Aniseed Valley)
White Gates Reserve…

Council supplied water is safe to drink

Tasman District Council is working extremely hard to ensure that all drinking water supply systems it manages meet the treatment standards demanded by the Water Services…

Avoiding a biodiversity cat-astrophe

Great news – we have created two new site-led feral/stray cat programmes at high biodiversity value sites in Tasman.

This is to help protect native birds, insects…

Gunnera

Let’s get rid of Gunnera

This pest plant is a prickly potential spreader that we hope to keep out of Tasman.

Gunnera tinctoria – otherwise known as Chilean Rhubarb – looks like…

Velvetleaf

Velvetleaf a conundrum for crops

Have you seen this pest plant? For the health of our crops, we hope not.

Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) is an Exclusion Pest in the Tasman Nelson Regional…

magpie

Magpies high on pest pecking order

Australian Magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) were first introduced to the region in 1865 from Victoria Australia to control pastoral insect pests. The magpie’s most distinctive characteristic is…