Wetlands: once we called them swamps and thought them as potential farmland and subdivisions, muddy, boggy and waiting to be drained.

A 1080 operation in the Blue Mountains, West Otago, not only controlled rats, stoats and possums but also had an impact on mice and hedgehogs.

When the Resolution Island Stoat Eradication Programme began in Dusky Sound in 2008 no-one said it would be easy and there are still stoats there.

How much would you pay for a feather? In 2024 a single huia tail feather sold at auction for NZ$46,521 – making it the world’s most expensive feather ever.

There were once horses on the Auckland Islands. Possums were deliberately introduced too but didn’t last long. Hardly surprising. It’s a harsh environment.

Lures are one of the first things people think about when trapping. There is no doubt that good lures can make a real difference, but trap selection and trap placement are just as important.

Approximately one-third of New Zealand’s islands are now free of all invasive mammals. Could the pigs, cats and mice on Auckland Island be next?

Duncan and Tina Mackintosh farm White Rock Mains in North Canterbury. 92 hectares of regenerating beech forest is protected by a QEII covenant.

Barry Farms at Ashley Clinton includes an 8 hectare bush block which has been under QE II covenant for over 25 years.

A whirlwind summer has seen great gains in knowledge about the island and has given valuable insights into how the ambitious plan to remove pigs, cats and mice might work.

Otuwhero Wetland is near Motueka, in the Tasman area at the top of the South Island.

Trials are in full swing down in the Southern Ocean exploring whether it’s possible to rid Auckland Island of its three remaining introduced predators.

Not only do kea nest on the ground, but it takes about 4 months from egg-laying until kea chicks fledge.

Motatapu Station near Wanaka is tackling habitat restoration and predator control on an impressively large scale.

Jordan and Mikayla Munn are recent winners of $25,000 with their venture to use top-of-the-line, military quality, thermal imaging technology to detect and help in the removal of invasive animals.