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Canterbury PhD student using audio to lure predators Aotearoa’s brightest young minds are setting out to revolutionise pest management, helping efforts to eradicate possums, stoats and rats from New Zealand by 2050, including a University of Canterbury doctoral student using audio lures for predators. Supported by Predator Free 2050 Limited (PF2050 Ltd) and $2.4million in…
Many New Zealand species are already at risk because of predators and habitat loss. Climate change makes things worse A new article on The Conversation from UC’s Professor Angus McFarlane and UoA’s Associate Professor Cate Macinnis-Ng shows how climate change accelerates biodiversity decline on islands by exacerbating existing conservation threats. Many native birds are threatened…
Endangered terns winning fight against predators With the number of nationally-endangered native black-fronted terns dwindling, the tiny birds have been handed an advantage in the ongoing battle against braided river predators on the Clarence River | Waiau Toa. Black-fronted tern Progress since lockdown In April, aerial weed control took place after surveys of nesting islands…