September 23, 2019 1:53 pm
Predator Free 2050 Limited is seeking applications from students wishing to conduct possum, rat or mustelid fieldwork projects, particularly in urban and rural landscapes.
Up to five honours and post-graduate students will be funded up to $30,000 each, for operational and associated laboratory expenses. …more
September 18, 2019 12:07 pm
The second issue of Target 0 is out, with its quarterly round-up of news from large landscape and research projects around the country.
We now have over 72,000ha targeted for removal of at least one introduced predator and protection from reinvasion.
With Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington operations well underway, 95 jobs have been created and Waiheke and Dunedin are also hiring.
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July 29, 2019 8:00 am
New Zealand Gardener magazine talks with broadcaster Jesse Mulligan and Predator Free New Zealand Trust’s Jessi Morgan about the importance of tackling predators in our backyards. …more
July 8, 2019 10:00 am
MEDIA RELEASE The country’s biggest urban predator eradication operation begins today as the Predator Free Wellington team begin installing 6,000 traps and bait stations in backyards across the Miramar Peninsula. Predator Free Wellington is a 10 year project aiming to make Wellington free of rats, possums and mustelids. The first stage of the eradication project […] …more
June 5, 2019 3:29 pm
Predator Free 2050 Limited has launched ‘Target 0’, a quarterly round-up of news from large landscape and research projects around the country. In this issue: Signs of the impact Towards Predator-Free Taranaki. HBC already looking beyond Mahia. Stats on support for Predator Free Wellington. Daunting task for Te Korowai O Waiheke. Possum catch trends in […] …more
April 24, 2019 2:00 pm
Provincial New Zealand is keen to embrace the Predator Free 2050 goal, a recent call for expressions of interest process has found. …more
March 15, 2019 11:00 am
Predator Free 2050 Limited is seeking a Project Support Manager to work across our growing number of large landscape and science projects. …more
March 8, 2019 11:24 am
Three cadets were welcomed by Rongomaiwahine iwi at a pōwhiri at Tuahuru Marae in Te Māhia yesterday, to mark the beginning of their work towards a predator-free Te Māhia. …more
February 18, 2019 10:00 am
Predator Free 2050 Limited has initiated a second funding round to support predator eradication in regional New Zealand and fast track the production of improved predator control tools and technologies. …more
November 12, 2018 12:00 pm
One of New Zealand’s most ambitious community conservation projects kicked off this morning.
The Capital Kiwi mission is to return kiwi to the wild in Wellington’s backyard. The key goal to enable this is the elimination of stoats from the landscape. …more
November 4, 2018 12:30 pm
A memorandum of understanding to remove pest animals from Banks Peninsula was signed on 4 November 2018, by more than a dozen participating groups and agencies. …more
November 2, 2018 12:30 pm
A huge biodiversity project to preserve one of New Zealand’s most stunning landscapes and its threatened species has today been announced in Twizel (Friday 2 November, 2018). …more
October 3, 2018 12:00 pm
In Dunedin this morning (Wednesday 3 October), 130 guests from 20 organisations joined Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage to celebrate the launch of Predator Free Dunedin. …more
September 16, 2018 5:00 pm
Waiheke is on track to become the world’s first predator-free urban island, following an exciting initiative launched on the island today (September 16, 2018). …more
