Otorohanga farming couple Jarrod and Danielle Hawkins said if it rained this summer, they could buy more kill traps for their QE II covenant block.

In the remote, rural valley of Uruti in North Taranaki, the 16 children at local Uruti School are bursting with pride. They’ve just taken out an Environmental Action in Education Award and have a handsome trophy to prove it.

Bacon, peanut butter and blue vein cheese were all on the menu as the children at Kaipara Flats, Tomarata and Tauhoa Schools experimented to find out what baits worked best to entice predators into their traps.

Auckland Council biodiversity officer Ben Paris, aka NZ Batman, is on a mission; not to save Gotham by defeating criminal masterminds, but to....

Birkenhead sits on Auckland’s North Shore. Like many New Zealand neighbourhoods that border bushland reserves or waterways, there’s a bit of a rat problem.

Russell and his wife May set up Pestbusters in 2010 to help tackle the threat of predators to native birds, including tui, kererū, and bellbirds.

It could be a Tom Cruise blockbuster. However, it’s not a movie (yet) – it’s the true story of a Wellington neighbourhood working to rid itself of rats, mice, possums, stoats and weasels.

Ever heard a possum lurking outside your bedroom window in the middle of the night, breathing heavily, or a rat’s tiny feet scuttling across the roof overhead? Neither experience is pleasant.

I’d never been to the ‘Third Island’, and had heard enough raves about backyard kaka and beaches chocka with kiwi to want to check it out.