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    • IMPACT STORIES: INCREASE IN NATIVE BIRDLIFE
      • Qualitative evaluation- Most Significant Change … To better understand the impact of the Te Motu Kairangi, Miramar Peninsula project at a deeper level, Predator Free Wellington is capturing stories from residents, volunteers, staff and key stakeholders about changes that may have resulted from involvement in…

    • IMPACT STORIES: COMMUNITY BUY-IN AND SOCIAL COHESION
      • Qualitative evaluation- Most Significant Change … To better understand the impact of the Te Motu Kairangi, Miramar Peninsula project at a deeper level, Predator Free Wellington is capturing stories from residents, volunteers, staff and key stakeholders about changes that may have resulted from involvement in…

    • IMPACT STORIES: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
      • Qualitative evaluation – Most Significant Change … To better understand the impact of the Te Motu Kairangi, Miramar Peninsula project at a deeper level, Predator Free Wellington is capturing stories from residents, volunteers, staff and key stakeholders about changes that may have resulted from involvement…

    • Let’s crow about soaring bird numbers in the capital
      • The eagerly anticipated annual bird monitoring survey results are in, and our native species are flying high in the capital thanks to years of collaboration, volunteer work and decreasing predator activity. Five-minute bird counts have been carried out at 100 permanent count-stations across Wellington city…

    • Mindfood Magazine: Angels of the Everyday
      • This article was written by Anna Crichton for the August 2024 issue of Mindfood Magazine. Emma Rowell is part of a groundbreaking conservation project that is turning the tide on native bird loss. Predator Free Wellington’s mission is to create the world’s first predator-free capital city, working to remove…

    • A day out with the Capture team
      • Who you gonna call? Our Capture team are on the frontline responding to sightings of rats in areas where they shouldn’t be. We spent the day with them to learn more. Ears to the ground. Cameras watching. A keen doggy nose. As we make more of the city predator free, our team is always ready to respond to rats…

    • On the trail: a day with the Capture team
      • Who you gonna call? Our Capture team are on the frontline responding to sightings of rats in areas where they shouldn’t be. We spent the day with them to learn more. Ears to the ground. Cameras watching. A keen doggy nose. As we make more of the city predator free, our team is always ready to respond to rats…

    • PFW on the BBC's 'What in the World' podcast
      • Our project continues to receive international attention. We featured on the 'What in the World' podcast from the BBC World Service. Emma Rowell, our Eradication Technical Officer, explained how we are removing rats, stoats, weasels and possums from Wellington. 'It turns out that New Zealand is basically the…

    • Putting a price on precious native species
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 27 July 2024. See original article here. What price a tūī? A kākā? A kiwi? Ten bucks? A hundred? Or are they more likely priceless? In 2016, then-prime minister Sir John Key visited Zealandia to announce a…

    • Some top trapping tips
      • Our team is currently in Phase 2 of our plan to remove rats, possums, weasels and stoats from Wellington. We’ve learned a lot and wanted to share some special tips to help out your backyard or community trapping. Keep it fresh … Would you want to eat dry or mouldy peanut butter? Neither would a rat! Keeping…

    • New technology boosting predator free fight
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 20 July 2024. See original article here. Every week a group of old geezers gather at a former bowling club greenkeeper’s shed in Hataitai. Here they saw and hammer and snip and laugh and yarn while they…

    • Governor-General turns rat-catcher
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 13 July 2024. See original article here. Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro acts as King Charles III’s representative in the realm of New Zealand under a legal instrument termed the letters patent. That…

    • Return of wildlife draws international plaudits
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 6 July 2024. See original article here. Wellington’s predator free movement is an economic driver for a city badly in need of a boost. Predator Free Wellington offers much more than eradicating introduced…

    • Predator Free army makes gains across city
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 29 June 2024. See original article here. A resident tūī in a scruffy tree alongside the steep Church St steps from Boulcott St up to The Terrace gives pause to those puffing by. Its sweet song, chortles…

    • Rotary on waterfront patrol
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 22 June 2024. See original article here. The harbour is an ironing board on a cruisy early winter Saturday morning. But Paula McKnight and Dennis Small have no time to join the strollers, joggers, coffee…

    • Rapu the wonder dog smells a rat
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 15 June 2024. See original article here. Rapu smells a rat. His shoulders tense and his tail wags as he moves into hunting mode. He has tracked an intruder rat on the steep steps above the Scorch O Rama…

    • Battle stations
      • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 8 June 2024. See original article here. Predator Free Wellington in partnership with The Post are covering all aspects of the battle against rats and stoats and weasels being fought across the city. And…

    • Predator Free Welly – the next frontier
      • This article was originally written by Nikki Macdonald and published by The Post on 1 June 2024. See original article here. Having conquered Miramar Peninsula, Predator Free Wellington is moving west. investigates what the movement has achieved, and the challenges ahead, including a looming funding hole.

    • Hunters on the trail of Miramar stoat
      • This article was originally written by Nikki Macdonald and published by The Post on 1 June 2024. See original article here. A stoat has been caught on camera a dozen times since December 2023 on predator-free Miramar Peninsula. He was first seen on December 15 – a full daylight snapshot of a white-bellied…

    • Predator Free Wellington proves NZ is world class
      • This article was originally written and published by Kea New Zealand on 24th May 2024. You can view the original article here. Supported by a grant from Kea World Class New Zealanders Neil and Annette Plowman via the Next Foundation, and formed as part of a collaborative partnership with the Wellington City…

    • Stoat sighting on the Miramar Peninsula
      • Miramar Peninsula’s biosecurity systems are being put to the test with a male stoat sighted on the peninsula. “The stoat has been detected on Predator Free Wellington’s monitoring cameras and was also sighted by residents. James Willcocks, Project Director said the reality of our project is that reinvasion…

    • Watch: Predator Free Wellington is on the move!
      • Eliminating rats, stoats and weasels from the Miramar Peninsula was an epic collective effort. The project relied on the support of 20,000 locals, and involved almost every business, school and kindergarten, every third household, hundreds of volunteers, Predator Free Miramar, technical experts, and our…

    • Miramar Peninsula celebration, a special day!
      • On the 4th November 2023 at the beautiful Te Tūhunga Rau community centre in Strathmore Park, we marked the completion of our Phase 1 project on Te Motu Kairangi! Elminating ship rats, Norway rats, stoats and weasels from the Miramar Peninsula has been a huge challenge over the last three years, so it’s a…

    • Miramar Peninsula's bird numbers flying high
      • The 2023 annual 5-minute bird count results have revealed a 71% increase in native birds on Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula, since the project began. This has been driven by a 500% increase in the number of pīwakawaka (NZ fantails), a 340% increase in riroriro (grey warbler), a 72% increase in the mean…

    • Predators all but wiped out on Miramar
      • This article was originally written by Andrew Williams and published by The Post on September 16th 2023. See original article here. Wild predators posing a risk to native birdlife have been almost eradicated from the Miramar Peninsula, as work continues to turn Wellington into the world’s first predator-free…

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