Predator Free 2050 Ltd, the Crown-owned company established to drive and fund large-scale eradication and breakthrough science, is now being disestablished, as announced as part of Budget 2025.

Millichamp, a 59-year-old former helicopter mechanic, is on the front lines of New Zealand’s drive to be “predator free” by 2050. That means eradicating invasive species such as possums ...

The Crown-owned company's responsibilities are going to the Department of Conservation following news of its disestablishment.

New Zealand’s unique wildlife faces a serious ... Orr-Walker advocates not only for cats to be included in the Predator Free 2050 initiative but also for the implementation of stronger ...

New Zealand plans to wipe out every last rat, possum and stoat. Can the plan work? Skip to content. Watch Live ... NZ aims to become predator-free by 2050. Conservation. Rats. New Zealand.

Predator Free New Zealand was always going to be an inter-generational programme and it is only a quarter of the way through its life, but its achievements are clear already and so is the fact ...

Clever new traps that can instantly tell a kea from a possum are being added to New Zealand’s bold campaign to be predator-free – now exactly 10,000 days out from the mission’s 2050 deadline.

Predator Free NZ warns funding shortfalls are straining volunteer-led conservation efforts as Jobs for Nature ends and demand ...

New Zealand does have "Predator Free 2050," a federal plan to eliminate its most pressing predators: rats, stoats and possums. There are calls for cats to be added to that plan, a politically ...

“The Predator Free 2050 strategy review signals that the New Zealand Government continues to take Predator Free New Zealand (PFNZ) seriously and is taking the opportunity to reflect on lessons ...

Scientists debate whether a multibillion-dollar plan to eliminate invasive animals by 2050 is feasible. ... is on the front lines of New Zealand’s drive to be “predator free” by 2050.

An ecologist at the time reckoned that New Zealand was losing 26m birds a year to predators, external. In 2011 a celebrity physicist, Sir Paul Callaghan, popularised the dream of a predator-free ...