Saving community conservation
Community conservation is in trouble and without clear objectives and support structures the risk of volunteers losing interest is high, according to a new report…
Mangarara Family Farm tackles predators with high-flying support
When Greg Hart’s family moved to Mangarara Station in Central Hawkes Bay in the mid 1990s, they shot 3 possums on their first night at…
Phill Waddington – Wildlife artist and DOC Series trap inventor
Not long ago, a door-knocking volunteer from a community trapping group offered to lend Phill Waddington a DOC 200 trap to put in his back…
Rotokare Scenic Reserve valued and thriving once more
Rotokare Scenic Reserve, near Eltham in South Taranaki is a stunning reserve of mature native bush, wetlands and a 17.8hectare natural lake that was first…
McGillivrays’ orchard is ‘rat farm’ no longer
When Wilson and Barbara McGillivray announced to friends that they were buying an avocado orchard, the response from one friend was less than enthusiastic. “He…
Thermal imaging reveals Tekapo pests and predator
When Sam Staley went to the Defence Force’s Tekapo Military Training Area back in 1996 to run the Military Camp and Training Area for a…
Twelve more Kiwibank Predator Free Communities announced…
From Auckland to Arrowtown and an assortment of towns and suburbs in between – the successful applicants for Round 3 of Kiwibank Predator Free Communities…
Investigating a rat’s ‘landscape of fear’
Cats and dogs are both predators of rats – but to what extent is the presence of cats and/or dogs a deterrent to rodents? How…
Tawapou Farm hosts kiwi and grey-faced petrels
When Guy Bowden’s parents bought a coastal farm at Matapouri, Northland back in the mid 1960s they immediately fenced off some of the bush. That…
Eradication – what about the social impacts?
Predator Free Great Barrier or Stewart Island? It’s already technically feasible. But is it socially feasible?When it comes to complete eradication of predators on inhabited…
No sanctuary option for terns
Not every species can be saved by moving it to a predator free island. It has helped the black robin – but it won’t help…
Small Ōhiwa community are big supporters of predator control
When Ōhiwa resident Andrew Glaser pitched the concept of a management group to coordinate protection efforts on and around the Ōhiwa Headland, the community immediately…
Ambitious plans for Grid-i detector
Gerald Dickinson has a busy year ahead. He’s just won a WWF Innovation Award for his Grid-i pest-detection development project and is aiming to have…
Rats and human disease links
In New Zealand we tend to focus on the harm rats do to our wildlife and ecosystems. But there’s another side to rats that’s even…
Trap and Trigger takes out Innovation Award
Jordan and Mikayla Munn are recent winners of $25,000 in the WWF 2017 Innovation Awards with their venture to use top-of-the-line, military quality, thermal imaging…
