8 EMROP: Waihi North Project WAI-985-000-PLN-LC-0001_Rev0 clean WNP (Waihi area) where non-protected plantings (including pine habitats) are replaced (Roper-Lindsay 2018). Where losses affect Significant, protected vegetation (SNA 166), The values are offset in accordance with a Biodiversity Offset Accounting Model (BOAM) to achieve a Net Biodiversity Gain. This Plan takes a holistic approach to replacement and offset planting, whereby areas of revegetation have been identified within the WNP landscape where they provide for, or enhance ecological values and integrity by buffering existing ecological values and creating or enhancing habitat connectivity throughout the immediate landscape. Weed and animal pest control and stock exclusion fencing (where appropriate) will be provided for all restoration plantings. The following provisions will ensure that the terrestrial ecological effects of the WNP (Waihi area) will be effectively managed to achieve an overall net ecological gain: 1. Measures to avoid or minimise vegetation and habitat loss through onsite management. This would include avoidance of unnecessary vegetation clearance through the physical delineation of the footprint boundary. 2. Avoidance of large-scale removal of native vegetation during peak bird breeding season (September to December inclusive) or to be preceded by a native bird nesting survey and avoidance of any identified active native bird nests until fledging confirmed; 3. Adoption of tree-felling protocols to protect bats at pine areas within GOP, NRS and TSF3 to avoid or minimise the potential for direct harm to potentially roosting bats; 4. A vegetation replacement, enhancement and offset plan should be prepared using best practice methods for the establishment and enhancement of ecological vegetation and systems. The plan should cover the following: a. Within SNA 166: Pine removal and revegetation, long-term pest animal and weed control as calculated using a biodiversity offset accounting system, for the loss of 8.3 ha of SNA and 1.2 ha of Western Fragment. The resulting revegetation and enhancement should: i. Be contiguous with SNA166 where possible, or within the within the immediate landscape where it enhances ecological integrity through buffering and connecting existing biodiversity values; ii. Where practicable, enhance significant values of SNA, such as kauri trees and moko skink. b. Replacement planting: Replacement of 16.2 ha of unprotected planted and other low to moderate value vegetation that would be removed. Planting should be undertaken within the immediate landscape where it enhances ecological integrity through buffering and connecting existing biodiversity values. c. Buffer planting in and adjacent to SNA 166 to minimise newly created edge effects along the southern edge of SNA 166 (Southern Fragment). d. Legal protection of all replanted areas 5. A Lizard Management Plan (LMP) should be prepared in accordance with Department of Conservation best practice guidelines (Bioresearches 2022) prior to vegetation removal at GOP, NRS and TSF3. All lizard works should be undertaken in accordance with a Wildlife Act
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