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The Predator Free 2050 goal is built on a foundation of strong community conservation efforts [10] with over 2,000 community groups across New Zealand taking part in predator control efforts. Those community efforts are supported by the Predator Free New Zealand Trust , a charity founded in 2013 with express purpose of advocating for community ...
Sodium fluoroacetate, commonly known as 1080, is used in New Zealand to control animal pests, specifically the possum which threatens biodiversity and carries tuberculosus. Hunters fear that 1080 impacts on game animals , and some environmentalists have concerns about 1080 killing the very native fauna it is meant to save, and pollution of ...
The Fiordland Islands restoration programme is run by the New Zealand Department of Conservation. [1] The purpose of the programme is to eradicate pests on key islands around Fiordland National Park, once the islands are considered predator free endangered native species will be translocated to the islands.
Goodnature was founded by friends Robbie van Dam and Craig Bond who met while studying industrial design at Victoria University.Van Dam had a job at the Department of Conservation (DOC) in the Biodiversity Unit building gadgets for pest control when he noticed the methods for killing pest species such as rats, stoats and possums were either inefficient or inhumane.
Biodegradable 1080 poison is the only poison currently registered for use on mainland New Zealand as suitable for aerial targeting of the common brushtail possum; [12] a major conservation and agricultural pest. [13] New Zealand has used 1080 for pest control since the late 1950s; [14] it imports sodium fluoroacetate in raw form from the United ...
It covers 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) at varying densities — a total of 5% of the land area of New Zealand when excluding existing indigenous forest, vegetated sub-alpine and alpine areas. [4] Gorse became New Zealand's most costly weed to control, an estimated $22 million per annum by the early 1980s. [5]
The NZ ETS created a specific domestic emission unit for use in New Zealand, the New Zealand Unit (NZU). The NZUs are not a Kyoto unit in terms of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, and can only be surrendered or traded within New Zealand. Assigned amount units (AAUs) issued by New Zealand under the Kyoto Protocol can be also used by emitters ...
The National Pest Plant Accord (NPPA) is a New Zealand agreement that identifies pest plants that are prohibited from sale and commercial propagation and distribution.. The Accord initially came into effect on 1 October 2001 between regional councils and government departments with biosecurity responsibilities, but in 2006 was revised to include the Nursery and Garden Industry Association as a ...