Phil and Emma, part of Predator Free Wellington’s Miramar team. Photo by Ian Robertson http://ianrobertsonphotography.co.nz
HOW WE COLLABORATE As a small organisation tasked with playing a significant role in delivering the Predator 2050 vision, successfully partnering, collaborating and facilitating collaborations across research and landscape projects is critical to our success. We work closely with a large number of partner organisations, including the Department of Conservation and the Predator Free New Zealand Trust. We have strong relationships through our focus on breakthrough science. For example, the ground-breaking completion of full genome sequencing for our target predator species was a result of our collaboration across the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, Genomics Aotearoa, CSIRO, University of Otago, University of Auckland and Manaaki Whenua. We have prioritised taking a partnership approach with the large landscape projects to support their learning and success. Our June 2021 Stoat Hui successfully convened researchers, practitioners and landscape project managers from 19 organisations to explore and advance stoat eradication techniques in a mainland environment.
