While the native bush is regenerating rats and cat, pigs and dogs are still decimating our remaining wildlife.

As custodians of the largest offshore island of New Zealand it behooves us all to follow the example set by a few pathfinders to help turn the tide on the reducing numbers of our native wildlife. The state of the environment at the turn of the millennium recorded that Great Barrier Island was still free of the imported predators; possum, stoat, ferret, weasel, deer, Norway rat, hedgehog and mosquito fish that have devastated mainland native wildlife.

While legislation has been enacted to protect this status it is hoped that further efforts will be made by the Territorial Local Authorities and the Department of Conservation to eradicate and control the remaining predators.