Birds return favour keeping nursery pests at bay
Three generations of the Bayly family are involved in trapping predators on the family farm on the Kaipara Coast, half an hour’s drive north of…
Young trappers keen to help on Ashley estuary
Arlo Poore is only 5 years old – but he’s already something of an experienced trapper. He regularly helps Dad, Stuart, check his two traplines…
Mice numbers in the absence of mammal predators
House mice are the smallest mammal predators to have been introduced to Aotearoa/New Zealand since humans first arrived here around 1280AD. The mice arrived on…
Mangonui kids are creative and committed to helping kiwi
East of Kaitaia, near Doubtless Bay and overlooking the Mangonui Harbour, you’ll find Mangonui School. Currently it has just over 140 students in years 1-6…
Bait consumption study shows what appeals to rats
D-Block bait and DITRAC All-Weather BLOX are two commonly used, long-life rodent baits with the same active ingredient, the anticoagulant Diphacinone. Rats and mice need…
‘Rivers Rare’ tells success story of Waitaki braided river conservation
When the Waitaki hydro system was developed, 7,400 ha of open braided river habitat and 3,900 ha of swamplands were lost in order to ‘bring…
Rat-trapping compost bin disposes of rodent problem
What’s a broken-down washing machine got to do with backyard predator control? Not a trick question – just an example of the creative and inventive…
Vision for buff weka drives Motatapu Station restoration
With a vision to re-establish the once-common buff weka, Motatapu Station near Wanaka is tackling habitat restoration and predator control on an impressively large scale.…
Better baits and better trapping
Peanut butter has long been used as a bait for rat traps. Possums have a fondness for the scent of cinnamon. But are they the…
New stamp issue looks to predator free future
On 1 August five new stamps will be issued by NZ Post celebrating the possibilities of a predator free future. For the design team at NZ…
Ferrets and Rabbits – and what history can teach us
With the benefit of hindsight, its easy to condemn those who released rabbits in New Zealand and even more so, those who then released ferrets…
DeBretts holiday park makes award-winning effort to control predators
Taupo DeBretts Spa Resort has a whole bunch of eco-initiatives in place to encourage their holiday park guests to reuse, recycle and reduce their impact on…
Riverland Rambles gives glimpse of predator free utopia
Riverlands Rambles is an occasional diary by Wade and Jan Doak that allows the reader a glimpse into another world. This e-book, available to download…
Managing predators where people live too
We know a lot about the impacts of introduced mammal predators in wild environments and about how to control their numbers in forests and remove…
Group protects kiwi on Russell Peninsula
Up around the Russell Peninsula, in the Bay of Islands, they have a healthy kiwi population that most parts of New Zealand would envy. “You’re…
