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Introducing 6 new Invasive animal Suppression Battler resources which are designed to enhance your expertise in planning and delivering Invasive Animal Suppression projects.

This document reports on the operational activities carried out over the field work delivery period of the Palmerston Atoll rat eradication. The purpose of doing this is to retain and build institutional knowledge and learnings for future operations; as well as report on the operational proceedings in the event they need to be referred to in the future.

New Zealand's geographic isolation and long period without human habitation allowed a unique natural environment to flourish. Our environment is known for the richness of its biodiversity, with more than 80,000 native animal, plant, and fungus species. As a result of New Zealand's isolation, much of our flora and fauna are not found anywhere else on earth.

Whale-watching as an industry in the Pacific is growing much faster than whale numbers are recovering and is proving to be by far the most lucrative use of whales, with the added attraction of doing them no harm, provided that the operations are well managed.