Imagine being able to check the status of every trap in your trapping network on your cellphone or on your laptop over a morning coffee.

A guest editorial by Northland conservationist and author, Wade Doak. From the minute Jan and I, with our two teen kids, landed on a forest hilltop…

Possums are a huge problem in New Zealand – and consequently the subject of a great deal of research. Most of that research focuses on the forests and forest remnants where they are most commonly found.

In late 2015, 80 mohua were transferred from Chalky Island to Te Puka-Hereka/Coal Island in Fiordland National Park, the latest in a series of native bird transfers to the island.

This week’s Friday afternoon reads looks at predator research relating to two key habitats in New Zealand – wetlands and off-shore islands.

Stoats are efficient predators. What can recent NZ research tell us about the best ways to tackle stoats?

Possums, rabbits, hares, wallabies and goats are all on the menu at ‘Raw Essentials’, a pet-food company which strongly believes in feeding our carnivore pets a true carnivorous diet.

The battle is being fought not just on the ground in New Zealand, but also in research labs and computer screens. So what have our researchers working on?

When it comes to possums, Zach Howarth believes in ‘utilising it all’. He’s about to sell his first shipment of meat to pet food manufacturer ‘Possyum’.

An art exhibition is an unusual way to tackle introduced pests.

Marie Haley lives in her great grandmother’s house on the Banks Peninsula land that was first farmed by her French great-great-great grandfather.

Glen Riley, coordinator at Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau, Sinclair Wetlands, 40km south of Dunedin, has been talking with some members of the Ornithological Society recently. According to the ornithologists, spotless crake were seen at the wetlands 30 years ago, but have been rare ever since.

As far as anyone knew, kiwi were long gone from the Houto Forest near Dargaville, until a kiwi was found on farmland just 1km north of the forest.

From the ziplines and swing bridges built high in the canopy of Rotorua’s Mamaku Forest there’s a phenomenal view of what a New Zealand forest looks like when it’s not full of possums and rats.

Otorohanga farming couple Jarrod and Danielle Hawkins said if it rained this summer, they could buy more kill traps for their QE II covenant block.