What’s happening up in the hood?
Sanctuary fences keep predators out – but they’ve also become a popular ‘highway’ for ship rats travelling around the sanctuary exterior. Rats have discovered that…
Kiwi company exports NZ trapping expertise
Traps developed in New Zealand aren’t just saving our wildlife, they’re helping endangered wildlife all around the world. We lead the way in producing humane,…
Liverpool researchers study rat audio lures
Cautious rats – bait shy and trap shy – are a problem worldwide and researchers at the University of Liverpool, UK have been looking at…
Winton company takes on Motu Ngahere restoration project
On the Southland Plains near Winton, Motu Ngahere (‘Island of Bush’) is one of the very few original native bush remnants left in the area…
AviaNZ open-source software helps analyse bird calls
Birds are hard to see and sometimes shy of humans, so call counts are the way that population sizes are usually estimated. Automatic acoustic recorders…
Human impact on NZ birds measured in millions of years
The conservation decisions we make today will have an impact for millions of years! That’s the conclusion of authors Luis Valente, Rampal Etienne and Juan…
No working dogs but lots of kiwi on Okaihau dairy farm
Jane and Roger Hutchings haven’t had a dog on Lodore Farm, their 450-hectare Northland property, in over 20 years – but they do have a…
Auckland Islands introductions included horses, possums, chickens
Did you know there were once horses on the Auckland Islands? Possums were deliberately introduced too but didn’t last long. Hardly surprising. It’s a harsh…
Trap appeal and lures
This is the fourth blog from our guest writer John Bissell. Read his introductory blog, or blogs on trap selection and trap placement. Lures are…
Better together? A review of community conservation hubs in New Zealand
Community conservation hubs are the subject of much, if very recent, discussion in New Zealand. As a result the Predator Free NZ Trust recently commissioned…
Predator Hunter — Trap Placement
This is the third blog from our guest writer John Bissell. Read his introductory blog and his second one on trap selection. This blog covers…
Overlooked takahē – April is your month
April is ‘Takahē Awareness Month’ and really it seems like the big blue/green bird could do with some extra publicity. A check of the ‘Bird…
Drone technology offers low impact method for seabird census
The Ashburton/Hakatere River mouth in Mid Canterbury is a nesting site for large colonies of black-billed gulls and white-fronted terns and proved an ideal study…
Tree-mounted rat trap boxes prove successful for Russell Peninsula group
Eion Harwood, coordinator for Russell Landcare Trust’s ‘Kiwi Protection’ project, has been spending a lot of time observing rat behaviour on the 15 trail cameras…
Detecting rodents during a food glut
How do you detect the presence of rats and mice if they’re surrounded by a glut of natural food? If it’s a mast year and…
