department of conservation

New Zealand eradicated two rat species from 2,000-hectare Kapiti Island in 1996; over the next three years its native saddleback population more than doubled and annual growth rose from 1.3% to 33.2%

In 1996, New Zealand completed a major conservation effort with the eradication of two species of…

Rangitoto framed – Tiritiri Matangi Island Off the coast of Auckland, in New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf,…