Miramar and Conservation
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Predator Free Wellington faces $1.75m annual shortfall
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was written by Kate Green for RNZ on 8 May 2025. Predator Free Wellington is facing a shortfall of $1.75 million annually, largely due to a decrease in government funding from next year. The group has successfully eradicated rats from the Miramar peninsula and turned its attention toward the…
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DNA unravelling rat populations
- Predator Free Wellington
- This story was taken from our 2023/24 impact report . Genetic sequencing data of the last remaining rats on the Miramar Peninsula helps us understand the local rat population, and gives us a snapshot into the effectiveness of our biosecurity efforts. This genomic study, the first of its kind in a New Zealand…
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Biosecurity remains top of mind for residents
- Predator Free Wellington
- This story was taken from our 2023/24 impact report . The Miramar community are essential for spotting rat invaders; they are our constant eyes and ears on the ground. Reporting possible rat activity is quick and easy, and for residents of Miramar it’s a natural expression of kaitiakitanga (guardianship).
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How we caught the Miramar stoat
- Predator Free Wellington
- This story was taken from our 2023/24 impact report . Following the successful elimination of rats and mustelids from Miramar Peninsula, the project has been entrusted to the local community for ongoing biosecurity management. Returning control to the community does not equate to abandonment; rather, it…
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Meet Neil Wilson: Wellington's litter legend
- Wellington City Council
- For over 20 years, Neil Wilson has had the 'gruelling' task of keeping Wellington’s reserves and beaches clean. As the Council’s Litter Control Specialist, he collects dumped items and litter from open spaces all the way from Miramar to Tawa, before sorting the findings into recycling.
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Wellington’s hill-dwelling rats lined up for ‘best last meal’
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was written by Kevin Norquay for The Post on 18 November 2024 . About 30,000 rats dwelling on hills from Mt Victoria south to Houghton Bay are headed for their last supper. Having eliminated Miramar of rats, stoats and weasels, James Willcocks and his Predator Free Wellington team have decked…
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Wellington’s hill-dwelling rats lined up for ‘best last meal’
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was written by Kevin Norquay for The Post on 18 November 2024 . About 30,000 rats dwelling on hills from Mt Victoria south to Houghton Bay are headed for their last supper. Having eliminated Miramar of rats, stoats and weasels, James Willcocks and his Predator Free Wellington team have decked…
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Impact stories: community buy-in and social cohesion
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Impact stories: increase in native birdlife
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Impact stories: increase in native birdlife
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Impact stories: community connections
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Impact stories: community buy-in and social cohesion
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Predator Free Welly – the next frontier
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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.
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Hunters on the trail of Miramar stoat
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Stoat sighting on the Miramar Peninsula
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Watch: Predator Free Wellington is on the move!
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Miramar Peninsula celebration, a special day!
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Rats, stoats and weasels have been eliminated from the Miramar Peninsula
- Predator Free Wellington
- Predator Free Wellington and the Miramar Peninsula community are celebrating the elimination of rats, stoats and weasels from the Miramar Peninsula. James Willcocks, Project Director for Predator Free Wellington, describes this as a massive milestone that has been hard won. “It takes a lot of persistence…
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Miramar Peninsula's bird numbers flying high
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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…
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Predators all but wiped out on Miramar
- Predator Free Wellington
- 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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NZ seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was originally written by Henri Astier and published by BBC News on June 26 2023. See original article here. On a bright Sunday morning the wildlife-lovers gather in Miramar, a scenic peninsula. They are on an exterminating mission. Predator-Free Miramar aims to protect birds in this area of…
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Work in progress!
- Te Motu Kairangi
- After maintaining this website for several years, there was a period where we did not update it with new information or complete certain sections.
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2023 update
- Te Motu Kairangi
- Kia Ora, It's been quite some time since we last updated our website.
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Equity in outcomes
- Predator Free Wellington
- Predator Free Wellington isn’t just on a mission to make Wellington the world’s first predator free capital city - we also want to make people’s lives better. Our eradication work on the Miramar Peninsula has enabled involvement from residents across the community that represent a diverse range of…
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Bird numbers soar to new heights on Miramar Peninsula
- Predator Free Wellington
- The latest Miramar Peninsula bird count results reveal a 51% increase in native birds on the Miramar Peninsula. The increase in native birds has been driven by a 550% increase in pīwakawaka (NZ fantails), a 275% increase in riroriro (grey warblers) and a 49% increase in tūī. James Willcocks, Project Director…
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Bird numbers soar to new heights on Miramar Peninsula
- Predator Free Wellington
- The latest Miramar Peninsula bird count results reveal a 51% increase in native birds on the Miramar Peninsula. The increase in native birds has been driven by a 550% increase in pīwakawaka (NZ fantails), a 275% increase in riroriro (grey warblers) and a 49% increase in tūī. James Willcocks, Project Director…
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How worried should we be about rats getting back onto the peninsula?
- Predator Free Wellington
- The effort to eliminate every last rat, stoat and weasel on the Miramar Peninsula – and keep them out - has many layers of defence. It’s not one magic tool or one person or organisation, it’s a systems approach with built in layers of barriers and safeguards that requires all of us to play a part. In an…
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How worried should we be about rats getting back onto the peninsula?
- Predator Free Wellington
- The effort to eliminate every last rat, stoat and weasel on the Miramar Peninsula – and keep them out - has many layers of defence. It’s not one magic tool or one person or organisation, it’s a systems approach with built in layers of barriers and safeguards that requires all of us to play a part. In an…
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Covid-19 fightback - update 26 March
- Wellington City Council
- Recycling reiteration - there’ll be no pick-up of kerbside recycling tomorrow (Friday 27 March) – residents of the eastern suburbs – ie Houghton Valley, Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie and the Miramar Peninsula - are asked not to put their recycling out.
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We are almost predator free on the peninsula!
- Predator Free Wellington
- As we near the end of the year, we’re excited to let you know we are almost predator free on the Miramar Peninsula.Over the last six months we’ve gone from tens of thousands of rats on the peninsula to tens of rats. We are closing in on the last few individual rats in the residential areas, we’re working…
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