This article was part of an eight-week guest column in The Post by our Board Chair and former Post editor Tim Pankhurst, published 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… Read more
Posted: 27 July 2024
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… Read more
Posted: 24 July 2024
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 over-trousers. While there’s plenty to learn in the… Read more
Posted: 22 July 2024
This article was part of an eight-week guest column in The Post by our Board Chair and former Post editor Tim Pankhurst, published 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… Read more
Posted: 20 July 2024
This article was part of an eight-week guest column in The Post by our Board Chair and former Post editor Tim Pankhurst, published 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… Read more
Posted: 13 July 2024