29 Nov Use of wire fencing to exclude large native herbivores
High grazing pressure by large herbivore can result in degraded understory species diversity, mainly due to decrease in the abundance of palatable herbaceous species....
High grazing pressure by large herbivore can result in degraded understory species diversity, mainly due to decrease in the abundance of palatable herbaceous species....
Richard Dawkins is a Marlborough farmer, environmentalist and rural advocate. He is vice president of Marlborough Federated Farmers....
The Survey of Rural Decision Makers (SRDM) is a biennial survey of New Zealand’s primary sector conducted by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research since 2013. It covers commercial farmers, foresters and growers as well as lifestyle block owners from Cape Reinga to Rakiura....
Exclusion fencing studies prove their effectiveness where wild mammals can compete with domestic herbivores for food, can predate domestic herbivores or can damage crops. Human-wildlife conflict can be reduced if wild mammals can be effectively excluded from fields or other areas of crops or livestock....
As part of their ongoing effort in Albatross conservation in New Zealand, the Department of Conservation have announced the first egg of the 21/22 Royal Albatross season at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head has been laid....
Judging by the volume and tone of emails and calls coming from farmers in the wake of our Member Advisories on the new Action for Healthy Waterways regulations, many of you are as dismayed as we are by some of the impractical and likely unworkable...
UMC Machinery's mesh fencing products protecting native wildlife and the future of the endangered kākā with the biggest ever release of the native parrots into the wild....