New Zealand's cheeky kea are among the brainiest birds on earth – and now scientists think using that smarts could stop them eating the poison dropped to protect them.
How to stop some of the famously curious alpine parrots eating 1080 cereal baits deployed to kill their predators has been a headache facing conservationists.

Approximately 40,000 ha of public conservation land in the remote Wet Jacket peninsula area of Fiordland National Park was included in the doc's Tiakina Ngā Manu predator control operation last month.
Doc Operations Director Southern South Island Aaron Fleming says the primary purpose of this operation was to protect vulnerable kiwi chicks which have been suffering from heavy stoat predation. "Through the Save our Iconic Kiwi programme, we've been monitoring kiwi chick survival at Shy Lake, in the northern peninsula, for the past three breeding seasons and every year it's the same story. Chicks are hatching, but not making it to adulthood.

A new rat poison and a camera that can detect and report predators are among new investments the government is funding as part of it predator-free 2050 goals. The government announced today $1.7 million in funding for four new projects via the Provincial Growth Fund.