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In November 2017, Predator Free 2050 Ltd announced their research strategy. [11] In contrast to previous speculative commentary, [12] [13] [14] this is the officially approved approach being taken. The strategy outlines four concurrent programmes. 'Environment and society' will explore New Zealand's social and cultural views about predator ...
The Trust's primary goal is to connect and energise communities [6] across New Zealand to participate in predator control activities. [7] It emphasises the importance of local involvement in conservation efforts, [8] encouraging individuals and community groups to engage in monitoring, trapping, and educating [9] others about the impacts of invasive species on native wildlife. [10]
The Predator Free 2050 Strategy launched in March 2020, alongside its first five-year action plan that highlighted not only the government's vision for the plan but also pathways of how to use the 5-year plan by individuals and groups across the country. [12] [13] The plan consists of three actions: mobilise, innovate, and accelerate ...
He chaired the Kiwi Trust, a group dedicated to protecting kiwi from extinction and sat on the board of Predator Free 2050 Ltd, [28] the company overseeing Crown investment pertaining to Predator Free 2050 research and project support. Fenwick undertook conservation efforts specific to his home town of Auckland, New Zealand.
As Minister of Conservation, Barry launched Predator Free 2050, a programme to ensure that New Zealand's native animals were free from being attacked by predators. It looks at controlling predators using community volunteers, private residents, philanthropists and government investment. [ 22 ]
In 2023, the BBC described him as a champion of New Zealand's initiative to eradicate predators in New Zealand to save native birds by 2050, called Predator Free 2050 Ltd, a public body. BBC reported that he "did much" to give scientific backing to the project. [ 6 ]
[8] [2] Brunton is an advocate for eliminating introduced mammalian predators from New Zealand as part of the Predator-Free 2050 initiative. [9] She was also a vocal opponent of Massey University's proposal to move most science faculty and courses to the Palmerston North campus. [10] [11] [12]
In 2016 the New Zealand government introduced Predator Free 2050, a project to eliminate all non-native predators (such as rats, possums and stoats) by 2050. [15] Some of the invasive animal species are as follows.