Miramar and Conservation
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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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New Zealand's biggest urban eradication begins today
- Predator Free Wellington
- The country’s biggest urban predator eradication operation begins today as the Predator Free Wellington team begin installing 6,000 traps and bait stations in backyards across the Miramar Peninsula. Predator Free Wellington is a 10 year project aiming to make Wellington free of rats, possums and mustelids…
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Latest chew card study shows community trapping makes a difference
- Predator Free Wellington
- Results from a recent chew card study on the Miramar peninsula shows community trapping efforts are successfully lowering rat numbers, especially in the suburbs. In urban areas where we have a high number of residents’ trapping, we’ve found rat numbers have reduced - only four cards chewed in 2019 compared…
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After thousands of conversations we’re almost there!
- Predator Free Wellington
- The first stage of our wider plan to make Wellington city predator free kicked off this year with Miramar Peninsula. Our three community liaison officers, Emma, Phil and Joakim have been out on the peninsula every day, walking the streets of Miramar, Seatoun and Strathmore, speaking with the community about how…
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Dr. Jane Goodall visiting Te Motu Kairangi-Miramar ecological restoration
- Te Motu Kairangi
- We had the honour and privilege to have Dr.
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Final push to make Miramar Peninsula predator free in 2019
- Predator Free Wellington
- The final push to make Miramar Peninsula predator free is about to begin – this means no rats, stoats or weasels and more kākā, kākāriki, kereru and geckos.James Willcocks, Project Director, Predator Free Wellington said this is the first stage of the wider plan to make the whole of Wellington city predator…
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Are rats using Miramar storm water pipes as a super highway?
- Predator Free Wellington
- Around the world, rats are known to use storm water pipe networks to move around cities. This is a concern for our goal of a Predator Free Wellington and is a risk we are considering as we begin our planning to make Miramar Peninsula predator free next year. Predator Free Wellington is fortunate to have great…
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Time to catch up.
- Te Motu Kairangi
- So lots have happened since last time we added something here.
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Church Update – 04/05/18
- Miramar Salvation Army
- Things I learnt whilst collecting at New World Miramar this week … They have Free WiFi You can use free wet wipes to clean the trolley handle before you start shopping You can dispose of your plastic bags for recycling Peter Croft’s favourite fruit is oranges at the de Kids still get a free slice of luncheon at the deli There are 110 white tiles in each section of the floor 1kg of pre-packed lemons cost $4.99 To ensure you have clean hands there is a hand sanitiser in the vege section – on the left One guy from USA has lived here for 3 years and only just discovered we have 10 cent coins There is a guy in Miramar who views shopping as the least favourite thing to do If you forget your grocery bag, you might be able to borrow a boomerang bag. There is a typo in the sign Thanks, see you soon (Can you spot it? Ask Lucy and she will agree with me!) One thing I did notice was a family who tied their dog up outside while they did their shopping. I wonder if anyone asked the dog what he wanted his life to look like – to be in a loving family but not able to come and go freely, or to live in the wild and not be loved? This Sunday we will consider where we find ourselves – how do we measure up with what we want? – and how can we prepare ourselves for what is just ahead of us? See you Sunday. Pastor Dave
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Goodbye possums, hello tui
- Predator Free Wellington
- Did you know that in the 1990s tui were a fairly rare sight on the Miramar Peninsula? The success of the 2003 Miramar Peninsula Possum Eradication Programme led by Greater Wellington Regional Council and Wellington City Council, had a positive, and long-lasting effect on other elements of the local ecosystem…
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Garden bird survey 2017
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- Kia Ora.
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Planting Season 2017
- Te Motu Kairangi
- That´s right! We are just starting to prepare for this seasons plantings and thsi year will be a very exciting season with a few new species reintroduced and moving into some new areas too.
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Weta Hotel and signs and have a nice summer :D
- Te Motu Kairangi
- Kia Ora Its a great summer! Wet enough for our planted plants and the bush, but enough sunny days to provide warmth and nice clear days.
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Te Motu Kairangi´s exciting discovery; Nesting kererū !
- Te Motu Kairangi
- For the second year now we have found a kererū sitting on nest! Last years nest in December seemed to been abandoned after a few weeks, however the nest was at a quite exposed location at the top of a spindly tree.
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Begun The Great Kereru Count 2016 has!
- Te Motu Kairangi
- The Great KererÅ« Count is New Zealands largest citizen science project to help gather info on the abundance and distribution of the New Zealand fruit Pigeon — also known as kererÅ«, kÅ«kÅ« or kÅ«kupa.
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Missing plants
- Te Motu Kairangi
- It was slight too dark to take a picture, but while walking bym checking out some of our work, we could tell that someone had removed some of our planted Melicytus obovatus by Tai Paku Paku road.
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