Jobs for Nature in Taranaki: 15 projects equalling more than $17 million has been put in, not only for our environment, not only for our sustainability, and not only for the restoration of what has been lost but it's also around those jobs. More than 116 fulltime-equivalents are being created around the Jobs for Nature, doing things such as pest control, riparian planting, stream health, species restoration, the protection of taonga species such as our kiwi and our kōkako, biodiversity and biosecurity projects, and the restoring of our ecological corridor from the Waiwhakaiho River through to our beautiful Taranaki Maunga, ensuring that with planting and weed control that our water species are able to thrive once more. 