Pests & Weeds

WELCOME TO PESTS & WEEDS CENTRAL

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Welcome To "Pests and Weeds Central"

New Zealand's Information Centre For All Things Pests or Weeds.

A huge database created, maintained, shared and updated by New Zealand's Regional Councils and the Department of Conservation

An educational resource for schools, conservation groups and businesses, and a reference guide for land owners, boat users and the general public. Learn to identify, control and report unwanted organisms so we can protect our ecosystem for the next generation.

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Information for Councils

A Pest and Weeds Hub for your Council

Integrate Pests and Weeds into your Council site

Most councils choose to include their Pest Hub as part of their main website. Alternatively, your Pest and Weeds information can stand alone as a separate site.

Style your Pest Hub to match your brand

Your Council's stylesheet can override the basic Pest Hub styling, allowing your Pest Hub to match your Council's colour scheme, button styling and other branding. Viewers can print a PDF version of the information about a specific organism. This PDF can also be styled to match your branding.

Share our comprehensive database

Select from a shared database of images and information. You can upload further content to share with other participating Councils. Names and categories of organisms are standardised across all Councils to ensure recognition of species is consistent across New Zealand (changes can be made by consensus). Other information can be edited to suit your own Council's situation and regulations.

Allow website users to search the Pest Hub.

A search of the Pest Hub can be included in a search of the Council site it is embedded in. Pest Hub results can be included in your site map and exposed to Google and other search engines. This will make it easier for internet users to find the information they are looking for.

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New Zealand's Land, Water & Environment

Alligator Weed: a serious threat

The Alligator Weed Working Group (AWWG) encourages New Zealanders to learn to identify Alligator Weed, an aggressive perennial plant which thrives in both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Look for a white papery flower head on a stalk - Alligator Weed produces clusters of flowers over summer (Dec to March).

Alligator Weed spreads via fragments by people and machinery and through waterways. It is poisonous to stock and can cause ill health to people if eaten.

Alligator Weed can reduce pasture production and crop yield, increasing costs for farmers. This invasive weed is a threat to agriculture, horticulture and our urban environment.

This weed can be confused with other plant species. For further information on identification and control, you can download the booklet produced as part of the See You Later Alligator project. If you find Alligator Weed, contact your regional council for advice.

Alligator Weed

Image credit M. McAlpine, GWRC.

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Additional Information

Useful Initiatives To Help Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Biosecurity Haumaru koiora If harmful pests and diseases get into New Zealand, they can cause damage. Biosecurity focuses on stopping them at the border or getting rid of the ones already here.

Biosecurity New Zealand

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/

What we do Established in April 2009, the Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust is a multi award-winning New Zealand charity that exists to connect people to nature and inspire change.

Sustainable Coastlines

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/

Predator Free 2050 Limited is a Crown-owned, charitable company established to help deliver the New Zealand government’s ambitious goal of eradicating possums, stoats and rats by 2050.

Predator Free New Zealand 2050

https://pf2050.co.nz/