Titlebook: Invasive Predators in New Zealand; Disaster on Four Sma Carolyn M. King Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 Spec

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European Rats (Since 1769)aders, and thence around the world on European shipping. Norway rats arrived in New Zealand first, possibly as early as 1769, and spread rapidly throughout the main and many offshore islands. For decades they were hugely abundant, adding yet more damage to that already done by Polynesian rats. The n

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Cats (1769–1900)On the North Island, the first cats were often killed by Māori for their meat and skins, but by the 1840s, cats were accompanying European settlers into the bush. On the South Island, cats were uncommon until the 1870s, when they were often transported inland by pastoralists to control rabbits and b

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Stoats and Weasels (1883–1892)their consignees and destinations. The number of animals landed according to official customs import data adds up to many more than are listed in the shipping records, so these are minimum estimates. The programme was driven against all objections by Benjamin Bayly, the government’s supervising rabb

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Lucky Escapes and Nasty Surprises (1884–1920)nemies proposed for introduction that were not officially approved. They include two species which are serious pests of wildlife in other countries. The red fox in Australia has been responsible for massive damage to small native marsupials, but was prohibited from New Zealand in 1867. One of the sm

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Hard Lessons in Pest Management (1976–2019)takes and treat predator control as only part of a full-scale national biodiversity strategy. World-first eradication expertise has cleared most uninhabited offshore islands of introduced predators, allowing recolonisation of exiled native rarities. A public aspiration to extend the same success to