7 Oct 2025

Project clearing predators from South Westland

From Checkpoint, 5:45 pm on 7 October 2025

An ambitious project is clearing predators from more than 100,000 hectares of South Westland wilderness, farmland and towns. Predator Free South Westland project aims to eliminate every possum, rat and stoat - and their goal is in sight. They've already removed from more than 90 percent of predators from the project area. Tess Brunton joined the workers doing the hard mahi from the Southern Alps to the sea.