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Find out about pest plants and animals in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. You can search for a pest by name or use the filters to narrow down the selection.
What is Pest Free Auckland?
Pest Free Auckland focuses on the suppression of pest animals, pest plants (environmental weeds), pathogens, and marine pests, to help nature thrive.
Marty 'nose' the importance of island biosecurity
While working the waterfront in the early hours of Sunday morning, Marty the English Springer’s nose began to twitch, and he knew something was amiss.
Troops needed for war on moth plant
Moth plant is a pest that is taking hold across the city.
Pest-free focus making good business sense for commercial boaties
From conservation to vessel performance, commercial boat operators are increasingly finding biosecurity is good business practice.
Conservation dog convention will have noses to the ground
There’s 'paws’ for celebration this week as Auckland Council’s biosecurity dog team gather with their counterparts from the Department of Conservation and private contractors across the country, for a 'nose to tail' convention.
Pest control operation begins to help protect the environment
Hunua 1080 application begins
The second phase of this season’s pest control operation in the Hunua Ranges parkland, neighbouring Department of Conservation administered land reserves and some private land, has begun.
Aerial pest control efforts to get underway in Hunua Ranges
Hunua pest control operation due to get underway
Hunua pest control operation to get underway
Nominate an environmental hero
It’s time to nominate an environmental hero, or team of heroes, for their work helping Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s nature to thrive.
Watch: Attracting birds to your Backyard with Ranger Glenn
Ranger Glenn and Tim ”The Bird Whisperer” explain which native birds you may spot in your backyard and what native plants to plant for them.
Place traps
Find out how to humanely and safely trap rats, possums and stoats, including what tools to use and where you should put your traps.
Getting to Pest Free Auckland
Getting to Pest Free Auckland will require effort from the whole community.
Aspiring novice eager to find new role in pest detection
Biosecurity dog team welcome Watson
Jobs for Nature injects funds to support Kawau Island project
A $4.85m project to target the eradication of rats, stoats and possums on Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf has received an injection of $1.3m from the Government’s Jobs for Nature Fund through Predator Free 2050 Ltd.
Grads Mawhai and Pip become New Zealand’s first specialist kauri dieback sniffer dogs
Biosecurity team’s secret weapon in the battle against kauri dieback.
How much do you know about our native birds?
Our team of experts have put together some exciting facts about our precious native birds. Do you know which bird can sound like a car alarm?
