Fight for the Wild

Fight for the Wild

New Zealand has lost countless species over generations. Can the notion of a Predator Free 2050 in Aotearoa turn the page and save our wild?

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April 28, 2021 2 mins

Takes you into the wild heart of Aotearoa, documenting the desperate battle to protect it and exploring the notion of Predator Free 2050.

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Fight for the Wild is a four-part video series that takes viewers into the wild heart of Aotearoa and documents the desperate battle to protect it. It explores the notion of Predator Free 2050 and asks whether this big, bold initiative is achievable and if so, how?

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Loss looks at the devastating effect introduced mammals have had on New Zealand's unique wildlife.

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Dealing with Loss takes listeners back to Gondwana, to explore just why our native birds are so tragically vulnerable to predation by mammals from another hemisphere.

Host Dave Hansford then presents a series of "criminal profiles" introducing listeners to the Predator Free target sp...

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May 16, 2021 27 mins

New Zealander's have drawn a line in the sand, announcing they will rid the nation of rats, stoats and possums by 2050, but what will it take to get there?

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Remove and Protect reveals what Aotearoa means to do about the losing battle for our wildlife.

It sets out the critical distinction between business-as-usual pest control - simply holding a line - and the step change, and monumental chal...

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May 23, 2021 26 mins

Community-led projects are leading the charge to halt biodiversity decline, while researchers make break-throughs in their quest to remove predators and protect borders from reinvasion.

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Episode Three explores the deep relationship between Māori and the natural world.

Predator Free 2050 and Māori looks at the vital contribution of Māori towards achieving Predator Free. It begins by exploring...

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May 30, 2021 29 mins

In the series finale, Hope, we get a glimpse of what a predator-free Aotearoa could look like, and look at the breakthrough technologies and innovations taking us towards that goal.

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The final podcast in the series, What's in it for us?, counts both the costs and benefits of Predator Free.

It explores the costs of not doing it, before setting out a range of possible, positive outcomes f...

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