Scientists investigate a new toxin combination that is less slow, doesn’t accumulate in the environment and is still effective.

Should we be using gene editing in New Zealand for predator control? How and where might it be used? What is even possible?

When scientists studying a Norway rat colony in New York had some wild cats moved in on the experiment, they watched the presence of cats and how their behaviour influenced the presence and behaviour of the rats.

The rats that your cat brings home may not be the biggest ones out there, according to international research into cat/rat hunting dynamics.

The Journal of Ornithology has just published a review of the conservation tools being developed for New Zealand’s Predator Free 2050 eradication programme.

There has been a lot of talk in the media about the beech mast and the mega mast. So what is it and why does in matter?

Researchers at Victoria University of Wellington have come up with some chemical compounds that wild rats seem to rate even better than peanut butter.

Our native skinks and geckos have evolved with predators that rely on eyesight to spot them – predatory birds, other lizards and tuatara.

Moa ate many of the same foods that deer eat today. So have feathered herbivores simply been replaced by furry ones, inhabiting the same ecological niches?

Bushy Park-Tarapuruhi Forest Sanctuary and Historic Homestead has a long history of community-led conservation, going back to the early 1960s.

Monitoring is an essential part of measuring the success of predator control, but methods used in forests may not be directly applicable to wetlands.

Weka are omnivores with a curiosity for anything new, which makes them vulnerable to 1080 poison. They’re also known to swallow the types of pellets used.

On any one day over summer there can be 1500 holiday-makers resident at the Hahei Holiday Resort in the Coromandel.

Many of NZ's introduced mammal predators – including house mice – are extremely good at climbing trees.

When there was a mast year in 2014, weasels as well as stoats turned up in the beech forests of Nelson’s Maruia Valley to feast on abundant rodents.