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2020 Kararehe Kino articles

  1. Editorial: Research towards achieving a predator-free New Zealand

    New Zealand’s mission to eradicate rats, stoats (shorthand for all mustelids) and possums from New Zealand by 2050 has raised eyebrows, enthralled or angered people and kickstarted a number of new predator control and eradication projects across the country.

  2. Building the Predator-Free 2050

    Predator Free 2050 Ltd (PF 2050) was established in November 2016 with two aims: (1) to supercharge local and regional efforts to scale up predator suppression and eradication, working closely with community groups and regional and city councils, and (2) to focus research efforts to achieve a breakt...

  3. Predator-free New Zealand: how will we know?

    As part of our national bid for a predator-free New Zealand by 2050, numerous predator eradication projects continue to pop up around the country.

  4. Use of cameras and artificial intelligence to monitor wildlife

    Motion-triggered cameras (‘camera traps’) can be an effective tool for monitoring wildlife, especially animals that are rare or secretive.

  5. Knowing when to walk away

    A common feature of all the current Predator Free New Zealand 2050 projects is attempts at regional-scale eradication of at least one species of pest. For example, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) is currently eradicating possums from Mahia Peninsula, while Predator Free Wellington is targeting m...

  6. Modelling complex eradication scenarios

    Predator Free 2050 has the goal of eradicating possums, rats, and mustelids from New Zealand by 2050. Outside conservation areas, responsibility for pest management often falls on local government agencies, and many regional councils have adopted the Predator Free 2050 goal, establishing pest eradic...

  7. Lessons from ecosanctuaries

    The vision to be predator free by 2050 has been greatly enhanced by successful achievements in previous decades of numerous smaller predator-free visions in diverse ecosanctuaries around New Zealand.

  8. Camera trapping and occupancy models

    In pest control, it isn’t the number of animals you remove that matters. It’s the number that remain. Monitoring the level of these residual pests in controlled areas is vital to the optimisation of trapping regimes and to determine whether each programme is meeting its pest reduction goals. In orde...

  9. Bait switching

    Since about 2005, Graham Nugent, Bruce Warburton and others have been trying to locally eliminate possums using aerial 1080 baiting.

  10. Recent publications

    Lustig A, James A, Anderson D, Plank M 2019. Pest control at a regional scale: identifying key criteria using a spatially explicit, agent-based model. J Appl Ecol 56(7): 1515-1527. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13387

    Innes J, Fitzgerald N, Binny R, Byrom A, Pech R, Watts C, Gillies C, Maitland ...