Gerald Mannion has a story about the ‘moment of truth’ when he and fellow Tangihua Lions Lodge trustees realised just how much damage introduced predators had done to their forest.

A predator-free New Zealand is going to require landscape scale removal of possums, rats, ferrets, stoats and weasels – and possibly other species such as mice and feral cats as well.

Last year, when the NZ Government announced its Predator-Free 2050 goal, it also included some interim goals to be achieved by 2025.

Conservation projects can benefit more than just the local wildlife. There can be significant community benefits too. When a community benefits, their support for conservation grows.

When scientists Patrick Garvey, Alistair Glen and Roger Pech tested the response of 18 wild-caught stoats the response was the opposite of what they expected.

Rats are the introduced predator homeowners are most likely to combat, according to the results from the 2016 ‘Public Perceptions of New Zealand’s Environment’ survey.

‘Raptors vs aliens’ sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster, but it discusses the implications for similar raptors vs aliens predator interactions in NZ.

What do we know about the effects of introduced mammalian predators in the alpine environment? The short answer is probably ‘not much’.

DOC’s Outreach and Education team are proud to release our latest teaching and learning resource ‘Investigating animal pests in your green space’

Eric Spurr and Nicholas Ledguard from Ashley-Rakahuri Rivercare Group share the results of the group's extensive predator control and bird monitoring work.

When Craig Gillies from DOC’s Hamilton office first started studying feral cats at the University of Auckland, he visited Department of Conservation ‘old hand’ Dick Veitch.

Professor Carolyn (Kim) King has spent a lifetime studying New Zealand’s introduced mammalian predators and is recognised as an international mustelids expert.

Those with the most passionate and strongly held views tend to have the loudest voices in public forums – but do they represent what most people think?

In Nelson they’re building an ark to the future. The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is at the site of a long-abandoned water reserve.

Jeremy Painting has discovered that rats in ‘plague’ proportions are threatening nesting success.