“Rural
communities, local employers and at-risk rangatahi are all
set to benefit from a
$2.96m investment into five
employment and skills programmes working with 193 at-risk
rangatahi and their whanau,” Carmel Sepuloni
said.
“He Poutama Rangatahi funding will enable the
Employment Pathways Programme and the Manawa Ora Rangatahi
Life Skills Programme to provide rangatahi with holistic
pre-employment training. This will be underpinned by
intensive pastoral care, which will support rangatahi to
connect with their cultural identity through iwi, hapū and
the wider community.
“In addition, this funding will
benefit New Zealand’s economy by supporting training
within industries such as conservation, forestry,
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Jobs for Nature: Government s $1.4m for Bay of Plenty conservation jobs described as lifeline
22 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust chairman Leith Comer said the project was a wonderful initiative . Photo / File
An initiative that will see $1.4 million in Government money pumped into creating conservation jobs in the Bay of Plenty has been described as a lifeline . Announced today, the funding for the three new Jobs for Nature projects has been welcomed by two Bay iwi leaders, with a tourism operator hit by border closures also set to benefit.
Conservation minister Kiri Allan said up to 30 people will be employed in the projects that will boost conservation efforts in Bay of Plenty spots including Mt Tarawera, Okere Falls and Kaingaroa.
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Bay of Plenty Region Council is using a $3 million injection from the Environment Ministry s Jobs For Nature fund to accelerate its freshwater clean up.
Integrated catchments manager Chris Ingle says it will employ about 135 people to fence more than 170 km of private land and plant up to 450,000 native plants around the Pongakawa River and tributaries of the Waihi Estuary, the Paraiti and Kaituna, Nukuhou and Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes.
Iwi around the Maketu estuary have already endorsed the plan. We re working primarily with Te Arawa and the trust on the estuary down there with improvement work. They are already underway with their project. There are a mixture of farm owners, Māori and Pākehā, and we are working with all of them, he says.
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Queenstown mayor Jim Boult says businesses will need certainty around the trans-Tasman bubble opening date. In 2019, Australians accounted for about 30 per cent of international visitors to Queenstown but in winter they were almost 50 per cent. Westland mayor Bruce Smith
said an Australian travel bubble was exactly what West Coast tourism operators needed, particularly in Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier, where international tourism previously made up 95 per cent of business.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a travel bubble with Australia was likely to open in early 2021at the final post Cabinet press conference for the year 2020.