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.
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
"Bomarea can smother garden plants. It invades forest and shrubland, damaging trees and preventing establishment of native species. It produces trumpet shaped flowers in clusters of 15-20 or more; flowers are tinged red on the outside, and bright yellow with red spots on the inside. The fruit is a capsule that ripens and splits to reveal bright orange/red fleshy seeds.
Bomarea
Weed of the month
"The Mediterranean fanworm is a marine animal that is typically found in harbours and estuaries, living in depths of anywhere between one to 30 metres. It forms dense colonies that could affect native species by competing for food and space. This particular fanworm looks different to New Zealand native fanworms in that it is larger and it has the single fan. It's important that boat hulls are kept regularly cleaned to prevent fanworms from establishing and spreading.
Mediterranean fanworm
Pest of the month
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Additional Information
Useful Initiatives To Help Keep New Zealand Beautiful
Biosecurity
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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
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
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
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