Weeds, pests & diseases
Carlos Rouco Zufiaurre checking a Sirtrack radio collar that has just been fitted on an anaesthetised possum
Outcome:
Improved management of pests, weeds and diseases in terrestrial ecosystems for industry benefi t and biodiversity protection.
Core expertise
- Mammal pest monitoring, control and eradication
- Multi–species impacts
- Wildlife diseases
- Molecular forensic tools for pest management
- Quantifying success
- Weed biocontrol
- Policy advice and evaluation
Our science focus
- Developing cost–effective, efficient and environmentally sensitive tools against vertebrate pests
- Reducing the prevalence of wildlife–vectored bovine TB in farm herds
- Establishing comprehensive biocontrol programmes for widespread intractable weeds
- Monitoring invasive weeds, invertebrate pests and wildlife diseases and assessing risk to biodiversity, human health and primary industries
- Advising pest management agencies, statutory authorities, rural and urban communities, conservation groups, primary producers and iwi