A new pest free strategy will build on past experience to deliver future biodiversity gains and help nature thrive across Banks Peninsula and beyond. “Since we set the first trap in 2022, we’ve been collecting all sorts of data – from ground experience from our rangers, our surveillance camera network, scent detections from… Read More »Building Biodiversity: New Pest Free Banks Peninsula Strategy
A recent study has found that toxin-based predator control on Banks Peninsula is having a positive impact on the presence of our endemic tree wētā. The report, entitled Effects of Possum Focused Predator Control on Terrestrial Macroinvertebrates in Banks Peninsula, was undertaken by researcher, Erin… Read More »Pest Free Banks Peninsula having a positive impact on biodiversity
Pest Free Banks Peninsula has set its target on removing possums from Akaroa – and they’re calling on residents and bach owners to help. Earlier this week, Mayor Phil Mauger, threw his support behind the campaign, agreeing to have a bait station set up on… Read More »Akaroa residents & bach owners urged to join the Possum Knockdown
‘New Zealand vs Predators’ was the print-edition headline, with the article featuring not just our efforts to create a pest-free future for Banks Peninsula, but also other elimination programmes and techniques around Aotearoa. You can read the article here
In what MPI described as ‘New Zealand’s largest feral goat eradication programme’, PFBP has achieved total eradication of feral goats on the true Peninsula (from Gebbies Pass) removing 4,246 goats from a 45,000-hectare area of Banks Peninsula. But we can’t rest on our laurels just… Read More »I spy with my little eye something beginning with G…
Possums living in Akaroa Township have been given notice by Pest Free Banks Peninsula – we’re coming for you this winter! Over the past almost-two years, Pest Free Banks Peninsula (PFBP) has been systematically working its way across the Peninsula, removing pests such as possums,… Read More »Possum Knockdown in Akaroa Township
Freeing the Peninsula of pests isn’t just about trapping, poisoning and shooting vermin, it’s also about engaging with people. Pest Free Banks Peninsula’s on ground actions are supported by a range of projects that encourage community and landowner action. One of those projects is the… Read More »Restoring our past, sustaining our future