New Zealand turns to traps and technology in an ambitious program to rid the country of furry predators threatening native birds and industry. Photo: AP and iStock ...

New Zealand’s campaign is unusual because it ... an emeritus professor at the University of Waikato who has studied stoats.

Artificial intelligence is making conservation efforts faster and easier in the fight for total pest eradication, with new ...

New Zealand was isolated for more than 80 million years, and ended up with a strange crew of castaway creatures. It never originally had mammals like rodents or stoats, so evolution was able to ...

Introduced predators such as rats and stoats kill more than 25 million native birds and wildlife every year in New Zealand. An estimated 1382 rats were dispatched in traps and an estimated 3600 rats ...

"Shaka can be a highly valuable and specialized conservation asset." Highly trained dog primed to play a key role in sniffing ...

Sure, 2024 wasn’t what you’d call a “feel-good” year for the natural world. But if your heart sank at each new blow to conservation (hello fast track bill, goodbye Jobs for Nature funding, looking at ...