Kiwibank funding inspires Karaka Bay community spirit
The small Auckland community of Karaka Bay is only just getting started on their backyard trapping programme but they’re already noticing a difference in their…
PCE Report – Where’s the plan?
Jan Wright, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, has written a comprehensive assessment of the current state of New Zealand’s birds – a taonga of our…
PCE Report — 5 Things You Need to Know
Last week Dr. Jan Wright released her penultimate report as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Titled “Taonga of an island nation”. It has been widely…
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…
Study investigates kiwi call count parameters
Kiwi call counts are an important monitoring tool in kiwi recovery projects, but just how accurate are they? The time of night you choose, the…
Tangihua Lions Lodge expands its outdoor programme to combat predators
Gerald Mannion has a story about the ‘moment of truth’ when he and fellow Tangihua Lions Lodge trustees realised just how much damage introduced predators…
Genome-mining to find toxins that are species-selective
A predator-free New Zealand is going to require landscape scale removal of possums, rats, ferrets, stoats and weasels – and possibly other species such as…
Walker family tackle Great Barrier rats together
Conservation is a family activity for the Walker family on Great Barrier Island. Alison Walker’s grandson Ari is only 3 ½ years old, but he’s…
Achieving a predator free Banks Peninsula – costs revealed
In geologically ancient times, Banks Peninsula was a group of volcanic islands and even now is only connected to the mainland by a narrow strip…
PF 2025 interim goals – what will it take?
Last year, when the NZ Government announced its Predator-Free 2050 goal, it also included some interim goals to be achieved by 2025 – now just…
Avian malaria – is it a threat?
We’ve got a pretty good idea of the damage being done to our native wildlife by introduced predators, but when it comes to introduced diseases,…
Windy Hill restoration brings employment for community
Conservation projects can benefit more than just the local wildlife. There can be significant community benefits too. When a community benefits, their support for conservation…
Predator scent may be key to developing long-life lures
When scientists Patrick Garvey (University of Auckland), Alistair Glen and Roger Pech (Landcare Research, Lincoln) tested the response of 18 wild-caught stoats to the scents…
Shakespear volunteers welcome new birds to park
Observant visitors to Shakespear Regional Park recently, may have observed a sheep wearing a transmitter. They might even have spotted volunteers, dressed in high-vis vests,…
Long-term study reveals bat response to predator control
As our only native land mammal, bats are both vulnerable to introduced mammal predators and potentially vulnerable to the methods used to control those predators.…
