Predator Free Southland
What's Predator Free 2050?
Predator Free 2050 is an ambitious goal to rid New Zealand of its most damaging introduced predators that threaten our nation’s indigenous biodiversity, our taonga species, our economy and primary sector. It is one of many work programmes that aims to contribute to reversing the rapid loss of our biodiversity, by eradicating possums, mustelids and rats, so our unique wildlife can thrive and our ecosystems can grow strong again. Across New Zealand, many individual community groups and agencies have been conducting predator control projects using traps, bait stations and poisoning, to buy our native species some space and time.
Pest free islands and mainland sanctuaries have shown us what is possible, and we now need to advance efforts on the mainland by transitioning from individual isolated projects to coordinated landscape-scale projects.
