Described as ‘New Zealand’s largest feral goat eradication’, Pest Free Banks Peninsula has achieved total eradication of feral goats across a 45,000-hectare area of Banks Peninsula. This achievement was enabled by more than 300 private landowners, and supported by a range of community conservation organisations,… Read More »Pest Free programme is the G.O.A.T!
A story by Jess. Just before Christmas 2021 there was a storm of epic proportions that caused a near biblical deluge. Torrents of water running off the hills took one of our cameras on an impromptu voyage, leaving it stranded in a debris patch near… Read More »Camera 66 on Tītī Protection Duty
You’d be stretched to find one moaner that doesn’t get excited about being surrounded with nature. There is something wholly electric about our native bird dawn chorus and it’s positively joyful being surrounded by the beauty of the landscape. Take the titipounamu, a.k.a. flying ping-pong… Read More »Tools in the Toolbox
As we are preparing our team with training and get all the necessary paperwork completed to begin serious control and eventual elimination of possums on the Wildside, PFBP is putting Karin Bos to work (but she’ll be the first person to tell you, this isn’t… Read More »Dealing to the wily ones on the Wildside
There are plenty of sea cliffs around the Peninsula, and these are hard to reach and difficult to manage in any pest control programme. The truth is, we don’t really know much about how possums use sea cliffs in their day-to-day life. And we really… Read More »Are seacliffs havens for possums?