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  • A Pacific Battle to Eradicate the Rhinoceros Beetle

    • Oct 2017

    • Secretariat of the Pacific Community.

    • Recently, the health of coconut palms has come under severe threat. The Pacific Community (SPC), working with Pacific Island countries and territories, and development partners, is looking for ways to meet this threat before it devastates the hopes of economic progress in the region. In August of 2017 an alert was issued identifying a new danger to the Pacific, which is causing devastation to coconut palms and expanding rapidly across the region. The new threat comes from a longstanding adversary in the region: the rhinoceros beetle.

  • Eradicating and preventing the spread of the invasive alga Caulerpa taxifolia in New South Wales

    • Jun 2004

    • New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (Australia).

  • New Zealand to be Predator Free by 2050

    • Jul 25, 2016

    • New Zealand Government.

    • Prime Minister John Key has today announced the Government has adopted the goal of New Zealand becoming Predator Free by 2050. "While once the greatest threat to our native wildlife was poaching and deforestation it is now introduced predators," Mr Key says. These introduced pests also threaten our economy and primary sector, with their total economic cost estimated at around $3.3 billion a year. "That’s why we have adopted this goal. Our ambition is that by 2050 every single part of New Zealand will be completely free of rats, stoats and possums."

  • Predator Free 2050

    • New Zealand Department of Conservation.

    • Predator Free 2050 is working towards an Aotearoa where our native species are safe from extinction and thrive alongside us – and everyone has a role to play in the movement.