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If you look at New Zealand's history, it becomes very obvious how good we are at eradicating introduced predators from off-shore islands. Who's to say we can't get rid of predators from Stewart Island by 2020? Or even better - a Predator Free New Zealand by 2040!

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Updated July 27, 2016 08:27:26

The New Zealand Government has announced it wants the country to be free of its most destructive introduced predators by 2050.

It plans to eradicate rats, possums and stoats, which kill millions of native birds each year.

The Government said its multi-million-dollar investment was necessary because of the threat introduced pests posed to wildlife, the economy and the primary sector.

"By 2050, every single part of New Zealand will be completely free of rats, stoats and possums," New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said.

The New Zealand Government said it would initially contribute $28 million towards a joint-venture company called Predator Free New Zealand, which will be at the helm of the eradication program.

The company will identify pest control projects and seek out co-investors.

The funding is in addition to $60 million to $80 million spent annually on pest control.

The Government said it would also contribute a further $1 for every $2 invested by local councils and the private sector.

It said the plan was necessary because introduced pests cost the country more than $3 billion each year, and posed a threat to wildlife as well as the primary sector.

Dr Marie Brown, a senior policy analyst for the Environmental Defence Society of New Zealand, a not-for-profit environmental organisation that has been campaigning for more investment in targeting pests, said the Government's plan had come at a critical time for many of the animals being killed by predators.

"Predators in New Zealand are a pretty significant threat to our biodiversity and we have the highest proportion of threatened species in the world," she said.

"So there's lots of species that are actually just barely hanging on."

Kiwi bird's main threat comes from predators

Dr Brown said the main threat for the kiwi bird, an iconic New Zealand species, came from predators.

"They tend to prey upon the eggs and the chicks before they're big enough," she said.

"A big kiwi is pretty good at defending itself against all but say a dog, but we need to get them through that vulnerable life stage and we need to remove that key pressure from them so we can start reversing the decline of biodiversity.

"The rate of threatened species is alarmingly high, but I would say large scale pest control is our best bet to rescue a lot of our species.

"But I would also add to that protection of habitat is important as well."

More funds needed to fight pest problem

Dr Brown said she was optimistic about the plan, but said an even greater investment was needed.

"It's certainly ambitious, and I think I've said vision and audacity is a good thing.

"But they can't be too much of a strawman, so we need some serious investment and public commitment to this.

"The $28 million is a starting point but it's not near enough.

"Prior estimates have been in the several billions dollars to achieve this, but what we've got is a political recognition that predators have a negative impact not just on our environment but also on our economy.

"Politically, that is very helpful in driving investment because it recognises that these guys that are chomping away on our forest and our fauna, and are really undermining our credibility in a tourism setting as well as impacting on our agricultural production."

Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, pests, new-zealand

First posted July 26, 2016 15:29:11

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New Zealand to eradicate rats, possums in bid to save native wildlife

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Updated July 27, 2016 08:27:26 The New Zealand Government has announced it wants the country to be free of its most destructive introduced predators by 2050. It plans to eradicate rats, possums and stoats, which kill millions of native birds each year.

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Tower Action at James Price Point against Woodside's destruction

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BROOME COMMUNITY NO GAS CAMPAIGN Media Release October 21st, 2011 Community halts Kimberley land grab Woodside Petroleum's Third Quarter Financial Report for 2011 has coincided with the occupation of a communications tower at James Price Point and a rally at Woodside's Broome office by protesters opposed to what they see as a land grab by the Barnett Government.

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With Woodside set to make its final decision in the first half of next year, the battle for James Price Point is heating up.

By Jeanette Francis

Phillip Roe looks out at his pristine surroundings. "You see this?" he asks. "This is our university." He's talking about James Price Point, 3,000 hectares of rugged coast, earmarked to become home to one of the largest offshore natural gas hubs in the world.

Phillip is one of three generations of Goolarabooloo men who have been fighting against the proposed $A34-billion project since the site was chosen from three other Kimberley sites in 2008. He says the area, both land and sea, is home to artefacts, including dinosaur footprints, which date back millions of years.

"It's a classroom. That's where I have my teaching. The Goolarabooloo teaching," says fellow Goolarabooloo man Richard Hunter. I ask him if he can see a gas hub there, in the middle of the vast ocean. "I can see it and it looks horrible," he says.

James Price Point is 50 kilometres from Broome in the Kimberley region of north-west Western Australia. Mr Roe says the area is home to the Goolarabooloo Songline, an intricate series of stories, Dreamtime mythology and cultural traditions passed down from generation to generation and inextricably connected to the land.

"If you really and truly look at it, we've got something so powerful. It's something we don't want to lose and the whole world will share [it] with us," says Mr Roe. "It's just so important that people realise our way and what it means to us. That's why we are fighting. It will cost us our lives," he says.
MUCH-NEEDED FUNDING
Far from the beauty of the coastline, Warren Greatorex pulls up into the driveway of an old dilapidated home, one of several in Broome's One Mile settlement. "It's an Aboriginal reserve that was formed here back in the early 1900s," says Mr Greatorex. "But when you take a look around you wouldn't think that they've been here for all this time," he says.

One Mile is home to 200 Indigenous residents. Around the settlement are several makeshift buildings that were once inhabited but now abandoned.

"You can just see the state and the conditions that some of our people have to live in. It seems to be an acceptable thing here which is a far cry from what it should be," says Mr Greatorex, the chairman of Waardi Limited, a body set up by the Kimberley Land Council to administer the money from a deal signed between the KLC, Woodside and the West Australian government in 2009.

The deal will see $1.5 billion over 30 years pumped into Indigenous communities across the Kimberley, and - according to Mr Greatorex - the beneficiaries will be places like One Mile. "We don't want people coming in here and doing things for us," he says. "We want to do it for ourselves and this money will help us do that."
COMPLEX SPLIT
Warren is also a Jabirr Jabirr traditional owner, the majority of who want to see the gas hub proceed. But the Jabirr Jabirr community are joint native title claimants with Goolarabooloo, who don't.

Both Goolarabooloo and Jabbir Jabbir were represented by the KLC in 2009 when the deal was struck but according to Phillip Roe, it was a 60:40 split and the deal was further undermined by repeated efforts by an eager West Australian government to compulsorily acquire the land.

Jabbir Jabbir and Goolarabooloo are now locked in a battle of words over who has a right to speak for country, and more critically the coastline of James Price Point. The dispute has a long and complex history dating back generations to Phillip Roe's grandfather Paddy Roe, who as an outsider entered Jabbir Jabbir country in 1931 and was entrusted by Jabbir Jabbir elders to carry on the name, songs and stories of the land.

The Goolarabooloo people have long sought their own native title claim and earlier this year, along with Jabbir Jabbir, applied to the Federal Court to have their joint claim separated. The application was retracted in June after both sides were advised that separating would breach the terms of the 2009 deal and both sides could end up with nothing.
MUDDYING WHALE-FILLED WATERS
Beneath the piercing blue Kimberley sky, the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd ferried media, environmental groups, local politicians and interested parties through what it called the largest humpback whale nursery in the world.

On board each day was the former Greens leader Bob Brown, whose visit to James Price Point on board the Steve Irwin was seen by Jabbir Jabbir as partial to Goolarabooloo. In a scathing letter addressed to Mr Brown, Jabbir Jabbir woman Rita Augustine accused him of treating indigenous people like museum pieces.

"It hasn't been easy, but we have made a decision -- a majority decision -- to face up to our own challenges and to build a better future for our children, our people, our culture, and our country," she says.

WATCH Sea Shepherd campaigning against gas hub via YouTube:

SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

Mr Brown has denied taking sides, saying he was only there to draw attention to the environmental consequences of the proposed hub. Those consequences, according to Environs Kimberley spokesman Martin Pritchard, could mean the end of the Kimberley as people know it.

"If this gas hub went ahead it would be the beginning of the industrialisation of the Kimberley. We're talking opening the door to large scale industrialisation in other parts of the Kimberley because we would have a cheap source of energy coming on shore," says Mr Pritchard.

"What we've had is about five years of this proposal looming over the community like a big dark cloud. We're coming to the point now where the tough decisions are going to have to be made," he says.

One of those tough decisions will be by the Federal environment minister, who will have to make the final decision on a report by the WA Environmental Protection Authority last month, which approved the project.

Woodside says it will conclude its feasibility study in the coming months ahead of a final decision to be made in the first half of next year.

REPORT: GAS HUB DIVIDES INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES REPORT: HOW WILL THE GAS HUB AFFECT BROOME?

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With Woodside set to make its final decision in the first half of next year, the battle for James Price Point is heating up. By Jeanette Francis Phillip Roe looks out at his pristine surroundings. "You see this?" he asks. "This is our university."

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