B-5 – Area 5 - Assessment of Environmental Effects 19 Figure 9: GOP archaeological/heritage sites (HDP map K4). 2.11 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY The terrestrial ecology values attributed to Area 5 are described in Bioresearches (2022), a copy of which is provided in Part H of these application documents. The Waihi SFA is a highly modified industrial environment that presents no terrestrial ecology values of significance. The GOP will encroach over part of the Winner Hill pine plantation and over some of the native vegetation that has been planted around the Favona Portal and the headwaters of the unnamed Gladstone Hill tributary. The pine plantation on Winner and Gladstone Hills has ‘Low’ ecological value as habitat for native species, while the planted native revegetation at the GOP has ‘Moderate’ ecological value (Bioresearches 2022, Section 5.1.3). The planted native vegetation along the Ohinemuri River at Waihi is part of a wider planting and rehabilitation programme undertaken by OGNZL and its predecessors since
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