After starting Ark in the Park in the Waitakere Ranges, John Sumich went on and started Habitat te Henga, protecting Auckland's largest wetland. It involved trapping for stoats to enable the re-introduction of pāteke (brown teal) in 2015 and 2016.
Forest & Bird says today’s announcement of six new marine reserves, in the south-east of the South Island, is a significant move towards protecting vulnerable Southern Ocean ecosystems.
Farmers, foresters and conservationists are all calling on political parties to commit to controlling the large mobs of browsing pests such as deer, goats, pigs, and wallabies now common across New
Marie Gray of the Summit Road Society will speak about the Society's work to restore native biodiversity on the Port Hills, including the revegetation of Avoca Valley and the community and backyard trapping programme Predator Free Port Hills.
