Changes to Greater Wellington’s predator control programme will achieve greater environmental outcomes and better value for money, the environment committee heard today. Previously known as the Regional Possum Predator Control Programme,…
A recent survey conducted by Greater Wellington and Top of the South Marine Biosecurity Partnership found and removed a small number of Mediterranean fanworms attached to hulls of boats in…
In bad news for birdlife, roadkill and trappings have shown that Transmission Gully is a mustelid highway - with stoats, ferrets and weasels among the animals using it to get…
Greater Wellington is calling on the region’s rural community to ‘look for rooks’, as the birds’ breeding season nears. Recognisable by their glossy, bluish-purple feathers and harsh “kaah” call, rooks cause…
Greater Wellington is calling out to rural communities in the Greater Wellington region to ‘look for rooks’ in its annual awareness campaign. A large, glossy, purplish-black bird with a harsh call,…