Our series of fact sheets cover everything from pest plants and animals to the Rotorua lakes and land management.
We have a variety of fact sheets on a range of topics that you can download from the sections below.
These fact sheets are available to download. For more information about any of these topics, please contact us on the details below.
- General information
Information about the Hazardous Activites and Industries List (HAIL). - Buying or selling a contaminated site?
Information about what you need to consider and where to go to for information
. - About to subdivide or change the land use of a contaminated site?
You'll need to know your responsibilities under regulations for potentially contaminated land. - Carrying out earthworks on a contaminated site?
Even if you don't think your land has been contaminated by past or current land uses, you need to stop and check - Interested in consent conditions for contaminated sites?
Councils often hold information about properties that may have been contaminated as a result of land use.
These fact sheets are available to download. For more information about any of these topics, please contact us on the details below.
These fact sheets are available to download. For more information about any of these topics, please contact us on the details below.
These fact sheets are available to download. For more information about any of these topics, please contact us on the details below.
These documents are available to download. For more information about any of these topics, please contact us on the details below.
- Uses and Management of Exotic Species: Poplars and Willows for Soil Conservation
- Uses and Management of Multipurpose Exotic Species
- Efficient fertiliser use
- General Good Management Practices – Nutrients
- Good Management Practices - Nitrogen
- Environmental Programmes to support Landowners
- Getting fish friendly - improving fish passage
- Native Planting in the Bay of Plenty
- Wetland Restoration Guide
- Creating fish nursery and rearing habitat on river margins
- Argentine ants
- Birds (magpies)
- Birds (parakeets)
- Birds (rooks)
- Cats (feral)
- Goats (feral)
- Hares
- Mustelids (stoats, ferrets, weasels)
- Pest fish (overview)
- Pest fish (catfish)
- Pest fish (gambusia)
- Pest fish (perch)
- Pest fish (tench)
- Possums (use of cyanide)
- Possums (use of traps)
- Rabbit control options
- Rats
- Wallaby (dama)
- Wasps
- African feather grass
- Alligator weed
- Apple of Sodom
- Aquatic pest plants (fact sheet)
- Aquatic - Pests in ornamental ponds
- Aquatic - Wetland pests
- Aquatic and farm - Clean your machine (hitchhiking plants)
- Asiatic knotweed
- Blackberry
- Boneseed
- Chilean rhubarb
- Climbing plants (various)
- Climbing spindleberry
- Coast tea tree
- Darwins barberry
- Ginger (Kahili and yellow)
- Gorse
- Green goddess lily
- Ground cover (Houttuynia, Wandering Jew / Tradescantia, Periwinkle, Plectranthus)
- Horsenettle
- Italian buckthorn
- Kiwifruit - wild (fact sheet)
- Lantana
- Mistflower
- Noogoora bur
- Old man's beard
- Pampas
- Pine - Lodgepole
- Pines (wilding)
- Poisonous plants
- Privet (fact sheet)
- Ragwort
- Royal fern
- Thistle - Nodding
- Thistle - Variegated
- Velvetleaf
- Woolly nightshade (fact sheet)
- Yellow flag iris
For plants not listed above, try the A - Z weed list (Weedbusters).
- Responsibilities of applicators - guide to applying agrichemicals
This factsheet is available to download. For more information on this topic please contact us on the details below. - Concrete Information Sheet
Find out more about Rotorua's air pollution problem.
These fact sheets are available to download.
A Tauranga Harbour wildlife poster is also available here.