• Fight for the Wild

  • By: RNZ
  • Podcast

Fight for the Wild

By: RNZ
  • Summary

  • New Zealand has lost countless species over generations. Can the notion of a Predator Free 2050 in Aotearoa turn the page and save our wild?
    (C) Radio New Zealand 2025
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Episodes
  • Introducing: Fight for the Wild
    Apr 28 2021

    Takes you into the wild heart of Aotearoa, documenting the desperate battle to protect it and exploring the notion of Predator Free 2050.

    Watch the video trailer here

    Fight for the Wild is a four-part video series that takes viewers into the wild heart of Aotearoa and documents the desperate battle to protect it. It explores the notion of Predator Free 2050 and asks whether this big, bold initiative is achievable and if so, how?

    In the complementary Fight for the Wild podcast series, conservation writer Dave Hansford investigates how and why New Zealand plans to become predator-free.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    2 mins
  • Dealing with Loss
    May 9 2021

    Loss looks at the devastating effect introduced mammals have had on New Zealand's unique wildlife.

    Watch the video version of the episode here.

    Dealing with Loss takes listeners back to Gondwana, to explore just why our native birds are so tragically vulnerable to predation by mammals from another hemisphere.

    Host Dave Hansford then presents a series of "criminal profiles" introducing listeners to the Predator Free target species: the brushtail possum, the stoat, the kiore, and the ship and Norway rats, through accounts from the country's leading experts.

    The podcast then quantifies the loss - one of the worst extinction episodes on the planet - before relating the peril that continues today, with commentary from field experts on the impacts of this suite of predators.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    27 mins
  • Remove and Protect
    May 16 2021

    New Zealander's have drawn a line in the sand, announcing they will rid the nation of rats, stoats and possums by 2050, but what will it take to get there?

    Watch the video version of the episode here.

    Remove and Protect reveals what Aotearoa means to do about the losing battle for our wildlife.

    It sets out the critical distinction between business-as-usual pest control - simply holding a line - and the step change, and monumental challenge, that is eradication.

    It looks at some ingenious new tools - smart, autonomous devices that are already changing our idea of what's possible and what's affordable.

    Host Dave Hansford and the experts then tell listeners the plan, the nuts-and-bolts detail of exactly how we mean to find and catch that last rat.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    27 mins

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