The search for native reptiles is a bit like a Hollywood drama. There’s adventure, suspense and sometimes the main character gets what they’re after.

Like many of us, Māia Gibbs grew up never having seen a kiwi in the wild. Now, she gets up close and personal while helping save the kiwi.

Curfews, leash walking, registration, and desexing. These are just some of the ways Australia is addressing domestic cat management. Part 2 of our series Cat Catastrope: Why are we behind Australia in managing cats?

The Kea Conservation Trust is urging people carrying out ground-based predator control in kea habitat to take extra precautions to avoid injury or death.

Mostly we get rid of introduced predators by, well – killing predators. It works, up to a point. But if you can’t get rid of every single rat or stoat then the few survivors suddenly find themselves with ample food supplies and very little competition.

It might sound futuristic, but Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already hard at work in the predator free movement, and there's lots of developments on the horizon.

Before the arrival of humans, the Chatham Islands were teeming with animal life. Geographically isolated for millions of years, fauna and flora living on the Chathams evolved into unique species found nowhere else in the world.

The Predator Free New Zealand trust recently undertook some research to “Better understand the health of the Predator Free movement”.

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

Want to do your part to protect our native species but can’t find the time? We’ve got some good news, busy people – joining the predator free movement doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming.

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.

Here are some tried and tested baits and lures for predator control.

Kiwi are the most translocated bird species in New Zealand and the number of new projects and released birds are steadily increasing. We’ve been moving our kiwi around for over 100 years but could we be doing it better?

In the middle of the night, huddled with her team on an island in the Hauraki Gulf, Predator Free Apprentice Marcia Welch sits and waits.

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).