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Stoat sighting on the Miramar Peninsula

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… Read more

Posted: 9 May 2024

Can Wellington become the world's first rat-free capital?

This article was originally written by Bernard Lagan and published by The Times on January 1st 2023. See original article here. Wellington tries to give rats the boot. Eliminating rodents from Wellington should inspire others to save native birds – editorial. Read more

Posted: 1 January 2024

Predator Free Wellington is on the move!

Eliminating rats, stoats and weasels from the Miramar Peninsula was an epic collective effort. It 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 and technical experts. We are hugely… Read more

Posted: 1 December 2023

Miramar Peninsula celebration, a special day!

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… Read more

Posted: 14 November 2023

Rats, stoats and weasels have been eliminated from the Miramar Peninsula

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… Read more

Posted: 4 November 2023

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      • Our urban predator free blueprint (2024)
      • Most Significant Change (2025)
      • Return on investment (2025)
      • The value of volunteers (2024)
      • Habitat preferences of Ship rats (2023)
      • Social-ecological research (2022)
      • People, nature and wellbeing (2020)
      • Predator Free Miramar: How to kill rats and engage a community (2019)
      • Biosecurity: Rat or mouse?
      • Biosecurity: Rat or wētā droppings?
      • Biosecurity: Chew marks and chew cards
      • Biosecurity: Tracking tunnels and prints
      • How to get trapping (guide)
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      • How to rat proof your compost
      • How to make a wētā hotel
      • How to build a corflute trapping tunnel
      • H2Zero trial – case study
      • Improving our biosecurity – case study
      • Using dog detectors early – case study
      • How to maintain your Victor rat trap
      • How to run a tunnel building workshop
      • Conceiving an unfenced urban ecosanctuary at Mātai Moana (2024) – external link
      • Estimating the impact of Predator Free Wellington on tree wētā (2025) – external link
      • Assessing the effects of predator control and habitat on lizards in an urban landscape (2025) – external link
      • Webinar - Analysis of Predator Free Wellington data from Miramar (2024)
      • Exploring the Social Dynamics of Landscape Scale Predator Eradication (2025) – external link
      • Understanding community commitments to urban predator control (2026) – external link
      • Multi-species Elimination Design for Towards Predator Free Taranaki – file download
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