It’s been called “the most ambitious conservation project attempted anywhere in the world”— will it actually work?
Evan Hamon, a member of the Ngati Porou ki Hauraki tribe and operational manager of the Te Ranga Wairua Trust, works with the Maori-led organization to create a trap-based “virtual barrier” to prevent predators from crossing New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula. His mission is “to save our forest,” he says. “The animals keep the forest alive.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/new-zealand-birds-invasive-predator-eradication