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Helping us all protect the region from pests: Developing a Regional Pest Management Plan

Protecting our amazing biodiversity, from backyards to bush reserves, and looking after our unique primary production is everyone’s business. From the chew card by your rubbish bin, treating invasive plants, or setting stoat traps in Queen Elizabeth Park, we want to make sure that the approach we take to pest control has a regional focus and supports all the amazing work that is going on from a national down to a local level.

We need to ensure that our goals for protecting both our native species and the places we value, are aligned with your community and iwi values, expectations and needs. This will go a long way to guarantee we have a robust approach to pest management in the future.

In order to do this we want to understand your priorities for pest management in the region over the next ten years. By understanding your priorities, we can develop a Regional Pest Management Plan (RPMP) that will guide our pest management activity, give it a regional focus and provide that vital support for the awesome work that happens throughout the region.


Thanks for your feedback!

Thanks so much to everyone that shared their initial thoughts with us. The feedback we heard is detailed below.

On this webpage you can also read the discussion document and current strategy or sign up for project updates to stay involved throughout the process below.


Protecting our amazing biodiversity, from backyards to bush reserves, and looking after our unique primary production is everyone’s business. From the chew card by your rubbish bin, treating invasive plants, or setting stoat traps in Queen Elizabeth Park, we want to make sure that the approach we take to pest control has a regional focus and supports all the amazing work that is going on from a national down to a local level.

We need to ensure that our goals for protecting both our native species and the places we value, are aligned with your community and iwi values, expectations and needs. This will go a long way to guarantee we have a robust approach to pest management in the future.

In order to do this we want to understand your priorities for pest management in the region over the next ten years. By understanding your priorities, we can develop a Regional Pest Management Plan (RPMP) that will guide our pest management activity, give it a regional focus and provide that vital support for the awesome work that happens throughout the region.


Thanks for your feedback!

Thanks so much to everyone that shared their initial thoughts with us. The feedback we heard is detailed below.

On this webpage you can also read the discussion document and current strategy or sign up for project updates to stay involved throughout the process below.


Have a question about the discussion document or the process for review? Ask us and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. 

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  • Hi there, As a hunter I am interested If you put deer repellent in the 1080 you use in the Wellington region

    Art asked 5 months ago

    Hi there, thanks for your query.

    Regarding your question about the use of 1080 deer repellent in the Wellington region and whether we use it, the initial answer is: it depends on the location and the management values associated with the area, and, who is funding the operation.  

    Regarding the recent aerial 1080 operation undertaken in the Southern Rimutaka, yes all baits were treated with deer repellent. This operation was funded by TBfree NZ and contracted to GWRC to undertake. Throughout New Zealand TBfree use deer repellent in high use hunting areas (designated recreational hunting areas).  On smaller private land or forestry blocks there is generally no demand for deer repellent.

    If GWRC are undertaking aerial 1080 pest control for rats and possums in the Wainuiomata Mainland Island, deer repellent will not be used as this area is managed as a water catchment area, not a recreational hunting area. In other areas designated as Key Native Ecosystems, or areas in our Regional Possum Predator Control programme, deer repellent may not always be used, again depending on the values associated with the land being managed and landowner preference.