Te Ara o Te Ata/Mt Messenger Bypass is a 6 km bypass road in North Taranaki that aims to replace the existing stretch of winding and often closed section of State Highway 3 connecting Taranaki to Waikato. The project involves extensive bat management, with radio-tracking to identify roost locations and ongoing vegetation removal for road alignment and works access.
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We provided specialist bat ecology oversight to support the discharge of consent conditions, delivering pre-felling and pre-de-risking bat surveys. This included the deployment and analysis of AR4 acoustic loggers, thermal and acoustic roost emergence and dawn watch surveys, arborist tree inspections, and felling oversight with post-felling checks throughout tree felling and de-risking operations. We reviewed the project Bat Management Plan and reported to council against consent requirements. Alongside this, we led community engagement — presenting bat information to local schoolchildren — and developed a new neoprene-flap, non-invasive de-risking method to replace expanding foam.
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