[2018] NZEnvC 244 Director-General of Conservation v Thames-Coromandel District Council [pdf, 1.2 MB]
...the full range of the district's indigenous ecosystems and biodiversity in a healthy, functional state. Whilst the policy is not expressed in overly directive terms, the viability, integrity and sustainability of "non significant" resources should be retained including by addressing increased risk from 18 plant pests. The Pa pathogen is not a plant but it is irrefutably a pest to plants (kauri) and absent an express plan definition we find that Pa is a "plant...