Currently we know very little about the amount and types of native vegetation located on farmland. Researchers set out to remedy that knowledge gap.

Pests are more widespread and harder to remove than is commonly assumed. Absence of captures after an operation does not necessarily indicate success.

Researchers have recently been studying the social life of our native skinks – and yes, skinks really do have a social network.

Hutton’s shearwater is the only seabird in the world that breeds in an alpine environment, with colonies in the Seaward Kaikōura Range.

Pāteke/brown teal are mainly nocturnal, small dabbling ducks found only in New Zealand. They once inhabited a wide range of habitats.

Colin Miskelly is hoping to solve a mystery one day – to find where the elusive grey-backed storm petrels breed, somewhere in the lower South Island.

Even ocean-going birds need to come ashore to breed and when they do, they bring a gift from the oceans with them – nutrient-rich guano.

Banded dotterels are declining on our braided rivers, but one river in Mid-Canterbury is going against the trend, thanks to intensive predator control.

Its name is Wētāpunga – named for the God of Ugly Things - and our giant weta could be the heaviest adult insect in the world.

The ruddy turnstone is the third commonest Arctic-breeding shorebird occurring in New Zealand, after bartailed godwit and red knot.

We’ve met a lot of conservation heroines here at Predator Free NZ Trust and International Women’s Day is a chance to celebrate their outstanding efforts.

Despite current hunting levels, anecdotal evidence suggests ungulates have been increasing steadily in our wild places, from an historic low in the 1980s.

Melissa Boardman is an illustrator passionate about native birds and conservation. She draws insipration from Aotearoa's predator free sanctuaries.

Previous translocations of green geckos showed that ‘hard release’ at the translocation site, without any barrier to dispersal, mostly didn’t work.

Predator Free NZ Trust asked scientists and others working in the predator free field what they see as the ‘burning questions’ waiting to be answered.