The second year of the Towards Predator-Free Taranaki project has seen a rapid expansion of the project area and the realisation of a key project milestone with the completion of a predator control buffer surrounding the national park.
2019/2020 was also a year of consolidating the significant gains that have been made in the urban part of the project, and expanding to new urban areas including Waitara, Ōkato and Ōpunake.
The zero density possum programme has also seen steady progress as we relentlessly push towards completely removing the threat that possums pose towards the Kaitake/Oākura area.
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