A private conservation block in the Coromandel is teeming with life thanks to four generations of one family.
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Almost 100 years of care has secured a 4000-hectare pocket of flourishing native bush home to a healthy population of 150 endangered brown kiwi and flocks of kererū up to 100 strong.

New Zealand First wants to ban 1080. What would that mean for our native wildlife? Dave Hansford writes
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Even for Wellington, it was bloody awful weather. A small, sodden group of anti-1080 protesters huddled against a biting southerly, the rain melting the slogans on their placards. Over the wind, they strained to hear New Zealand First List MP Richard Prosser, who told them he had a few “new truths” to share about 1080.

The Dunedin City Council will be taking a "highly cautious" approach during a 1080 drop in an area used as a back-up treated water supply.

The Council announced yesterday it had approved a request from Ospri to undertake pest control on council land in the Silverstream catchment next month.
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The council said its cautious approach to the drop included not taking water from the catchment while 1080 was present, closing tracks for 15 days, and not allowing dogs in the area for up to a year.

Otago Daily Times

There has been a 20% increase in bird numbers on Otago Peninsula in areas where possum eradication work has been done.

Preliminary analysis of monitoring data collected by the Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group and University of Otago ecology students has confirmed what many residents believe - that bird numbers are increasing.

Botany Department ecology senior teaching fellow Dr Haseeb Randhawa said students analyzed the 25,000 bird observations recorded by the biodiversity group plus the monitoring work they did themselves.