Curfews, leash walking, registration, and desexing. These are just some of the ways Australia is addressing domestic cat management.

Feral cats live on every continent except Antarctica. But even though they can live almost anywhere, some habitats are more appealing than others. 

Why are we quickly falling behind in managing cats? We need only look across the ditch to see how a different cat-management reality could be playing out in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Trapping using food-based lures of hens’ eggs and rabbit meat, with long-life rabbit the main stoat control method in New Zealand.

New research published in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology shows that mast years are bad news for kea. Native beech trees produce millions of tasty seeds in a mast year, which rodents love.

In many wildlife sanctuaries around New Zealand fences make it almost impossible for most introduced predators to get in. But mice can still sneak through…

Good for rat population control, but not a stand-alone tool – that’s how two scientists have described the success of self-resetting traps on Goat Island.

To survive and succeed in the wild, every meal an introduced predator eats has to be worth the effort and energy it takes to obtain it.

Researchers have calculated that the total number of feral cats in Australia in largely natural landscapes averages 2.07 million.

Wrybills, the little shore birds with a bend in their beak, are only found in New Zealand. They breed on the South Island’s braided rivers.

The ancestors of Māori brought the kiore across the Pacific in their waka and early Māori developed several types of ingenious rat traps to catch them.

A common way to monitor what insects or lizards are around, is to use a live-capture pitfall trap which ground-based insects then fall into.

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

We can’t fence huge tracts of wilderness – but we can potentially make use of natural barriers to stop possums reinvading cleared areas.

Researchers used 264,457 tracking records from 23,709 tracking tunnels to get a clearer picture of how ship rat and mouse populations relate to each other.