What if our national namesake disappeared? Wild as that sounds, 68,000 native birds, including the kiwi, are killed by predators every night. With over 4,000 species at risk, New Zealand now tops the global endangered species list. That puts our name to shame. As part of the Predator Free movement, we’re… Read more
Posted: 18 June 2025
Predator Free Wellington and Wellington City Council have won the Supreme Award at the LGFA Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards held at Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre this evening. The LGFA Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards celebrate programmes, projects, and approaches… Read more
Posted: 12 June 2025
Consultation on this strategy has now closed. Learn how you can support our work or get in touch with us. Our project has made remarkable progress in the last five years. We've shown how to remove rats, stoats, weasels and possums from a city and hold the line. We have 1,500 hectares (and growing) of… Read more
Posted: 26 May 2025
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… Read more
Posted: 9 May 2025
We’re experts in urban rat removal but when we first started, no one had successfully removed rats from an entire suburb or city. We learnt lots from island eradications and also knew that engaging the community was essential. As our project has developed we have kept trying new things to make our work… Read more
Posted: 14 April 2025