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Possums sorted – look out Omaui rats
A few years back, John Collins of Omaui got sick of shooting possums every night. He decided more needed to be done.
Young kaitiaki learn to care for Omataroa kiwi
Ian Tarei is Kiwi Project Manager for the Omataroa-Rangitaiki No 2 [Maori land] Trust and has been involved with the project since its beginning 10 years ago.
City cats – what don’t we know and how can we find out?
It seems that everyone in New Zealand has an opinion and a significant proportion of us own at least one companion cat – but what is actually known about the multiple roles of urban cats in New Zealand?tt
Kiwibank helps launch Picton backyard trapping initiative
When Picton organisers heard they’d won a competition to become a Kiwibank Predator Free Community earlier this year, they called a public meeting – and a hundred people turned up!
Aorangi Restoration Trust works closely with deerstalkers and community
Many years ago, Clive Paton’s aunt, Noeline Paton, used to run Forest & Bird in Otago. She was an early influence in his life.
Tracking cats on Rakiura/Stewart Island
While PFNZ Trust focuses on 5 key introduced predator species, we acknowledge that domestic pets – both cats and dogs – are also introduced predators and are potential killers of native wildlife if allowed to stray.
Pest-free future under the microscope
In a paper just published, some of New Zealand’s top conservation scientists review the prospects for control and eventual eradication of our key mammalian pests.
Staunch penguins a match for stoats, but not dogs
Reuben Lane enjoys the staunch, feisty characters of the seabirds he’s helping to keep safe on the South Island’s West Coast – blue penguins, Fiordland crested penguins, petrels and fairy prions.
Pest control in earnest
A guest editorial by Northland conservationist and author, Wade Doak. From the minute Jan and I, with our two teen kids, landed on a forest hilltop...
New business venture finds growing market for possum meat
When it comes to possums, Zach Howarth believes in ‘utilising it all’. He’s about to sell his first shipment of meat to pet food manufacturer ‘Possyum’.
School kids take on the possums
In February 2015, as part of a maths project, the students of Elsthorpe School set up some possum traps in the area to see what happened. The results may surprise you...
Going Native — Third Island rat catching with Goodnature by Paul Stanley Ward
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.
To Trap a Stoat: A Great Day Out in the Hills
Our task was to lay out one hundred DOC-200 traps (a large box trap primarily targeting stoats) in the Ruahine Range behind Waipukurau, central Hawkes Bay.
