PAPER: Managing New Zealand’s mammalian pests

Past, present and two potential futures for managing New Zealand’s mammalian pests

September 2016

Garvey PM, Glen AS, Clout MN, Wyse SV, Nichols M, Pech RP. 2017. Exploiting interspecific olfactory communication to monitor predators. Ecological Applications 27(2): 389-402.

ABSTRACT

In 2003, a review of how introduced mammals were managed as pests in New Zealand was published. Since then trends for the control of these mammals include moves from pest-by-pest prioritisation towards site-based and multiple-pest management, extension of large-scale aerial control of predators to include beech forests, increasing intensive management of sites by private and non-government agencies, and increasing effort by regional councils and managers of vectors of bovine tuberculosis.

KEYWORDS

biodiversity assets, eradication, invasive mammals, pest-free, predator-free New Zealand, sustained control