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Stuff Workers in Te Anau’s tourism industry will be able to carry out pest-plant eradication work during quiet times at their normal job. Eleven Fiordland tourism businesses have applied for an initiative which will assist tourism staff to earn a living wage and stay in the community. Environment Southland has received $690,000 from the Government’s Kaimahi for Nature fund, which will be used to complete pest plant control work around Te Anau, Manapouri and Milford Sound. At a Environment Council meeting on Wednesday, council biosecurity and biodiversity operations manager Ali Meade said the council was working with the Ministry of Social Development to keep the workers in their tourism jobs as well as giving them the opportunity to earn a living wage by carrying out plant control work on the Fiordland Buffer Zone project. ....
Environment Southland has directed a boat to leave Fiordland and its hull to be cleaned. (file photo) A boat that has been ordered to leave Fiordland is only the second to be directed to leave, after it was allegedly found with an invasive aquatic species on its hull. But Environment Southland is remaining tight-lipped on where the boat was found and when, what type of boat it was, where it was going, and whether it had left Fiordland. A report from regional council chief executive Rob Phillips, which was tabled at a full council meeting on December 16, says a non-compliance action has been started for a boat that is believed to have travelled from Bluff Harbour to Fiordland while in breach of the Fiordland Marine Pathways Plan clean hull rules and with suspected Undaria on the hull. ....
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