Once, under the towering rimu and tōtara of Rakiura (Stewart Island), the booming calls of kākāpō resonated through the night.

At Zealandia birds like kākā and takahē create a lively canopy and forest floor. But behind the scenes, there is a complex web of connections.

A seven-year Department of Conservation study into combined predator control methods has revealed great news for the survival of our native whio (blue ducks). 

Do Orokonui Ecosanctuary kākā benefit from supplementary feeding or might it be upsetting the nutritional balance of their diet?

This week marks the publication of the Maukahuka Pest Free Auckland Island project report on the technical feasibility of eradicating pigs, cats and mice from Auckland Island.

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

Fenced sanctuaries offer a way to create areas of rich, predator free habitat for vulnerable species. But what about the habitat outside the fence?

Between 2010 and 2016, Friends of Flora and DOC translocated 44 roroa (great spotted kiwi) to the Flora Stream area in Kahurangi National Park.

What a difference 20 years makes! The lizards of Kāpiti Island have now had 20 years of living rat-free - so how are they doing?

Finding ways to reduce translocation stress can save lives. And the lives that are saved are often those of rare and endangered taonga.

Researchers looked at how bird populations on the Ipipiri Group in the eastern Bay of Islands, responded to predator control by Project Island Song.

Rats have discovered that the rolled steel hood (designed to stop mammals climbing over the fence), also makes a great way to get around, safely out of reach of their own predators like stoats and cats.

Ecosanctuaries are our modern-day ‘Noah’s Ark’ and range from small islands to ring-fenced sanctuaries like Maungatautari, Orokonui and Zealandia.

Predator eradication becomes more complicated when people are living onsite, so how do Hauraki Gulf Islanders feel about predator control?

Maungatautari Ecosanctuary is overflowing with tūī. They’re spilling over the predator proof fence into the surrounding community too.