Trojan Possums – are they the next step?
It’s called the Trojan Female Technique and it’s involves a mutation in females that makes all their male offspring infertile. Because it is a gene,…
Detecting predators – can you count on chew-track-cards and WaxTags?
Fundamental to a well-managed pest control programme is detecting what predators you have and monitoring the changes in abundance as your trapping regime progresses. Leg…
Advocacy and active predator control on the Coromandel
When a small group of Coromandel locals got together in 2000, wanting to do something for the environment, they could little have imagined the sheer…
Learn how to get the most out of your Goodnature traps (webinar)
Robbie Van Dam from Goodnature discusses their automatic self resetting traps. You will learn: RELATED Possum facts and control tips River tested as reinvasion obstacle…
Learn how to get the most out of your DOC trapping series (webinar)
Darren Peters from the Department of Conservation discusses the DOC series of traps (150, 200 and 250). You can expect to learn: RELATED Possum facts…
New ways to combat possums
Rest assured, New Zealand’s scientific community are beavering away to find new and better ways to combat possums. These are just a few of the…
Secrets of Mangarakau Wetlands revealed
There’s something rather special about wetlands – and not just because they’re becoming increasingly rare. There is an air of secrets and mystery, of strangeness…
Friday afternoon reads… island recovery
For thousands of New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic mice, their sojourn on the Antipodes is almost over. Endemic beetle and moth populations will finally get a chance…
Habitat modification – complex relationships
Habitat modification – what’s good for native wildlife and what isn’t? Weta can thrive, living in the crevices provided by large introduced trees. Cutting those…
Local marae community inspires environmental change
Good things – even great things – can come from inauspicious-seeming beginnings. In 2010 a proposed new wastewater system got people worried in the small,…
Mohua facts
The mohua, or yellowhead, is a small bird with a bright yellow head and breast. Early settlers called it the ‘bush canary’ because of its…
Monitoring matters
Environmental monitoring is more than just a modern conservation buzzword. It’s an essential tool in determining whether all those volunteer hours put in by your…
Kiwi inventor shares ways to read predator footprints
Warren Agnew can tell a lot from an inky footprint. A stoat track is easy to recognise because of the hairiness of the feet. But…
Genetic diversity and bats
New Zealand’s entire black robin population once consisted of a mere 5 birds and all black robins surviving today are descended from one breeding pair…
Trelissick Park Group cares for idyllic wilderness area
It may well be Wellington’s best kept secret – an urban wilderness area where nationally threatened fish species thrive in a meandering stream and where…
