Our project continues to receive international attention. We featured on the 'What in the World' podcast from the BBC World Service. Emma Rowell, our Eradication Technical Officer, explained how we are removing rats, stoats, weasels and possums from Wellington. 'It turns out that New Zealand is basically the… Read more
Posted: 8 August 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 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