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Glyphosate in Aotearoa, New Zealand Summary Report on the call for information
Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Environmental Protection Authority - Te Mana Rauhi Taiao

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New Zealand Government - Te Kawanatanga o Aotearoa

2022
We have prepared this report following a call for information about the herbicide glyphosate, issued by the EPA between April and October 2021. This call for information was carried out in recognition of the many concerns that surround glyphosate, whether they be concerns about its possible impact on human health and the environment or concerns about the effects of glyphosate being unavailable on agriculture and the larger economy. The use of glyphosate is a divisive topic, and unsurprisingly, we received a wide range of comments around glyphosate use in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Indigenous peoples’ attitudes and social acceptability of invasive species control in New Zealand
Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Balanovic, Jovana

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Black, Amanda

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Garner, Gary

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MacDonald, Edith

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Mark-Shadbolt, Melanie

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Mercier, Ocean

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Wright, Janine

2021
In Aotearoa New Zealand, a significant threat to biodiversity, conservation efforts and Indigenous cultural identity is the unwanted introduction of invasive pests, plants and pathogens. Currently methods to control invasive species in Aotearoa New Zealand, in particular mammalian pests (i.e. possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)) have had decreasing public support. This has likely come about for a number of reasons, including lack of social engagement and concerns over impacts combined with an increasing distrust of top-down initiatives. Aims and methods. We analysed opinions towards existing and emerging technologies to manage invasive species. Data were obtained from 1015 respondents who identified as Indigenous Maor ¯ i from a national survey of 8199 respondents. Utilising psychological frameworks to investigate underlying beliefs of social acceptance, we analysed the responses using exploratory and latent class analysis methods to summarise the main perspectives.
CBD COP 15 | Minister for Climate Change New Zealand Hon James Shaw backs PRISMSS
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Menzies, Steve

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Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

2022
A speech by the Minister for Climate Change New Zealand, honorable James Shaw during COP 15 in 2022 declared his support on any and all efforts to scale up the management of Invasive species. This is critical as a key action for increasing the climate resilience of Pacific Islands.
On the rise: Climate change in New Zealand will cause Sperm and Blue Whales to seek higher latitudes
Biodiversity Conservation
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Peters, Katharina J.

2022
Climate impacts affect marine ecosystems worldwide with islands nations such as New Zealand being extremely vulnerable because of their socio-economic and cultural dependence on the marine and coastal environment.
Making weed biological control predictable, safer and more effective: perspectives from New Zealand
Biodiversity Conservation
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Paynter, Quentin

2017
A persistent problem in weed biocontrol is how to reliably predict whether a plant that supports development in laboratory host-specificity testing will be utilized in field conditions, and this is undoubtedly preventing releases of safe and effective agents.
A global representative system of marine protected areas, volume IV: South Pacific, Northeast Pacific, Northwest Pacific, Southeast Pacific and Australia and New Zealand
Biodiversity Conservation
1995
Proceedings of the first International Conference on the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 and 16 October 1994
Biodiversity Conservation

International Conference on the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (1st : 1994 : Auckland, New Zealand)

1994
Conserving the natural heritage of the Antarctic Realm : proceedings of the 29th working session... Wairakei, New Zealand, 16-21 August 1987
Biodiversity Conservation

Working Session of IUCN's Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (29th : 1987 : Wairakei, New Zealand)

1987
Eradication of red deer from Secretary Island, New Zealand: changing tactics to achieve success
Biodiversity Conservation
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Edge, K.A.

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Macdonald, N.

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Nugent, G.

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Parkes, J.P.

2019
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) established on 8,140 ha Secretary Island after swimming from the mainland in the early 1960s. Attempts to remove them began in the 1970s and after several starts and stops they were eradicated in late 2014. Since late 2006, 688 deer have been removed. Ground hunters killed 365 deer in 1,827 hunter-days, 320 deer were shot from helicopters in 211 ?ying-hours, two deer were trapped and one was known to have been killed by a ?sherman. The campaign since 2006 was planned in three phases – an initial population reduction, a mop-up phase and a surveillance and rapid response to any new immigration phase. An initial reduction of 80% of the population, between 530 and 550 in 2006, was planned and achieved in the ?rst two years. The removal of surviving deer was planned to take a further four years but despite 114 being shot and probably less than 14 deer remaining in 2013 eradication was not achieved using the methods that succeeded in the initial phase. The change in tactics in 2014 that allowed for eradication was to (a) ground survey the island and use camera traps to locate areas with deer, (b) identify individual deer from faecal DNA to estimate numbers, know when they were shot or still alive, and to estimate potential new immigration from the mainland – which was low, and (c) move from individual hunters seeking any deer within a widespread population, when about 10% of hunter-deer encounters led to a kill, to re-train hunters as teams using GPS/radio systems and integrate them with aerial hunting to seek individual deer at known locations, when 100% of encounters led to a kill. The change of tactics that led to eradication success required about half the costs, i.e. $25,000 to $10,500 per deer direct operational costs, expected if no change had been made.
The history of the aerial application of rodenticide in New Zealand
Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Broome, K.

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Garden, P.

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McClelland, P.

2019
Following the incursion of rats (Rattus rattus) on Taukihepa (Big South Cape Island; 93.9 km²) off southern New Zealand in 1963, and the subsequent extirpation of several endemic species, the New Zealand Wildlife Service realised that, contrary to general belief at the time, introduced predators do not reach a natural balance with native species and that a safe breeding habitat for an increasing number of ‘at risk’ species was urgently needed. Off shore islands offered the best option for providing predator free habitat but there was a limited number of predator-free islands available and most were very small. Eradicating rodents on larger islands to provide a wider range and greater area of habitats was required and hand treating these larger areas using trapping and hand application of toxicants, the only methods available at the time, proved problematic and often impossible. Helicopters had been used to distribute bait for the control of rabbits and brushtail possums in the past but eradication of any particular predator species was considered ‘not feasible’. The development of a GPS-based aircraft guidance system, a suitable bait product, specialised bait delivery systems and second-generation anti-coagulant toxicants changed that. Now islands as large as South Georgia (3,900 km²) have been treated using this method

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