Predator Free Wellington and Conservation
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Wellington’s hill-dwelling rats lined up for ‘best last meal’
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- 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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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Impact stories: increase in native birdlife
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- 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 buy-in and social cohesion
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- 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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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Impact stories: community connections
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- 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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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Super-sized ‘mega rat’ find shocks Wellington conservationists
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- This article was written by Sam Smith for Stuff on 15 November 2024 . Conservationists at Predator Free Wellington have been taken somewhat by surprise with what they are calling the largest rat they have ever caught. Weighing 523g and measuring 400mm from nose to tail, this appropriately called “mega rat”…
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Let’s crow about soaring bird numbers in the capital
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- 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…
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Wellington Airport sponsorship to turbo-charge Predator Free Wellington
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- Wellington Airport is ramping up its partnership with Predator Free Wellington (PFW) and the fight against rats, stoats and weasels by coming onboard as PFW’s first ‘Wellington Family of Five’ sponsor. Wellington Airport’s chief executive Matt Clarke says the airport is proud to support the goal of creating…
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Mindfood Magazine: Angels of the Everyday
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- 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…
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A day out with the Capture team
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- 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…
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On the trail: a day with the Capture team
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- 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…
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PFW on the BBC's 'What in the World' podcast
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- 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…
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Putting a price on precious native species
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- 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…
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Some top trapping tips
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- 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…
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A new technology trial and a new communications programme lead
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- New Communications Programme Lead David Klein got out into the field to help install some new technology to make Predator Free Wellington’s work faster and cheaper. It’s a drizzly winter morning in Wellington and I’m kitted out with a fleece, raincoat and overtrousers. While there’s plenty to learn in the…
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New technology boosting predator free fight
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- 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…
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Governor-General turns rat-catcher
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- 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…
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Return of wildlife draws international plaudits
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- 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…
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Wall St Journal: Inside New Zealand’s Mission to Wipe Out Predators
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- This article was written by Mike Cherney for the Wall Street Journal and was published on 5 July 2024. Read the full article here. Armed with a .22-caliber rifle, a GPS tracker and a dog named Scmack, Jason Millichamp set off into the hills here with a license to kill. His mission: find and eliminate…
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Predator Free army makes gains across city
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- 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…
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Rotary on waterfront patrol
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- 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…
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Rapu the wonder dog smells a rat
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- 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…
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Battle stations
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- 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…
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Predator Free Welly – the next frontier
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- 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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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Hunters on the trail of Miramar stoat
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- 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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Predator Free Wellington proves NZ is world class
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- 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…
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Stoat sighting on the Miramar Peninsula
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- 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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Can Wellington become the world's first rat-free capital?
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- This article was originally written by Bernard Lagan and published by The London Times on January 1st 2023. See original article here. Wellington tries to give rats the boot. Eliminating rodents fro Wellington should inspire others to save native birds – editorial.
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Watch: Predator Free Wellington is on the move!
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- 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!
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- 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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Strathmore Park, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Rats, stoats and weasels have been eliminated from the Miramar Peninsula
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- 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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