Pest Animals

Pest animal impacts/effects are assessed using various techniques. Strategic plans and assessments of relative priorities for control have been prepared for different animal species and features of ecological significance.

Understorey of red beech (Nothofagus fusca) forest

• Pigs, deer, goats, wallabies, and possums (monitoring and control).
• Animal control priorities.
• Field survey, data analysis and report preparation.
• Predator control (rats, mustelids, cats).
• Control plans.
• Eradication planning.
• Planning and implementation.
• Monitoring (exclosures, permanent plots, photopoints, faecal pellet lines), data analysis and reporting.

Maungapohatu, from Te Rangaakapua, Te Urewera National Park