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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 ...
The Predator Free 2050 project is a New Zealand government program to eliminate eight invasive mammalian predator species (including rats, short-tailed weasels, and possums) from the country by 2050. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] The project was first announced in 2016 by New Zealand's prime minister John Key and in January 2017 it was announced that gene ...
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]
Alexander and a student are also undertaking pest-control research funded by Predator Free 2050, looking at how understanding genes involved in possum reproduction could help New Zealand meet its predator control targets, and what social licence might be needed for gene drives to be used in predator control in a culturally-informed way. [10] [11]
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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.