Predator Free Wellington / July 2024
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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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