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High-Tech Solutions To Invasive Mammal Pests

Tranche 1: Project 2.3

This research team is helping to develop targeted, next-generation, socially acceptable and cost-effective new technologies to achieve landscape-scale freedom from rats, stoats and possums

The ability to cost-effectively keep these pests that threaten our biodiversity at zero density will be transformational for Aotearoa New Zealand conservation.

This BioHeritage Challenge project, led by Professor James Russell of the University of Auckland, supported the scaling up of efforts to eradicate pests by accelerating the provision of improved tools, methodologies and strategies for mammal pest control.

A formal national collaboration between this project, Predator Free 2050 and Genomics Aotearoa, had a research focus on the population genomics of New Zealand rats and science strategy for a Predator Free New Zealand.

These collaborations helped the project team complete a comprehensive report on the status of new pest control tools that are close to market in New Zealand. The report will facilitate stakeholder engagement, encourage early adoption and leverage private sector investment.

Project Leader

  • James Russell, University of Auckland

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Last Updated August 21, 2024, 09:45 (NZST)
Created July 5, 2024, 16:42 (NZST)