Robbie Van Dam from Goodnature discusses their automatic self resetting traps.

Darren Peters from the Department of Conservation discusses the DOC series of traps (150, 200 and 250).

Rest assured, New Zealand’s scientific community are beavering away to find new and better ways to combat possums.

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 lurking just below the waterline. There is, for example, the mudfish.

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 to recover and nesting seabirds will be free of encroaching rodent harassment.

Habitat modification – what’s good for native wildlife and what isn’t? Wētā can thrive, living in the crevices provided by large introduced trees.

In 2010 a proposed new wastewater system got people worried in the small, remote East Coast settlement of Mahia, located on the Mahia Peninsula, between Napier and Gisborne.

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 colour and..

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 community group is achieving positive, measurable change.

Warren Agnew can tell a lot from an inky footprint. A stoat track is easy to recognise because of the hairiness of the feet.

Inbreeding and a loss of genetic diversity threaten many of our native species and will continue to endanger more species if their population numbers are allowed to decrease.

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 possums were eradicated over a decade ago.

The detrimental effects of New Zealand’s larger mammal predators are very well documented. Everyone surely knows the devastation caused by rats, possums and stoats

Jo Halley is sore – sore knees, sore feet and sore shoulders. She’s just back from several days of crawling through scrub in search of great spotted kiwi (roroa), then digging and crawling into muddy burrows to change the year-old batteries in their transmitters before they go flat.

For thousands of New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic mice, the next few weeks are the final countdown.