Professor Carolyn King

Professor Carolyn King with ferret fitted with tracking collar

Stoat fitted with a radio transmitter

Ship rat raiding a bird's nest (Nga Manu Images)

Norway rat

Possum raiding a nest, destroying chicks (Nga Manu Images)

Ship rat raiding a nest, killing chicks (Nga Manu Images)

Why Predator-free NZ cannot target only stoats, possums and and rats if that benefits cats, ferrets and hedgehogs, while herbivores still damage the forests (Cartoon by S Marks)

Introduced mammals illustration by John Flux.

Ferret with a rabbit kill

Cartoon on the plight of runholders by David Henshaw

Guns, dogs, couldn't control rabbits. Poisoned grain killed many birds.

Illustration of invasive species by P Barrett.

Rabbit sitting up

Introduced wild rabbits reached plague levels by 1880.

Wagon hauling rabbit skins

Taxidermied rabbit

Skilled weasel handler, Walter Allbones, collected many animals alive from local game keepers at Croxby Top, UK. Samuel Grant of Castlethorp in the UK, sent Allbones to New Zealand in charge of 25 stoats and weasels to FD Rich, the owner of Bushey Park on the South Island east coast.

Map showing Bushey Park in the South Island.

Document from Samuel Grant to FD Rich on the mustelid shipment.

Stoat handler, Walter Allbones

Gravestone of Matthew Henry Allbones

Invasive Predators in New Zealand - Disaster on Four Small Paws.

Invasive Predators in New Zealand - Disaster on Four Small Paws as an ebook.