No more rats: New Zealand to exterminate all introduced predators. Possums, stoats and other introduced pests to be killed in ‘world-first’ extermination programme unveiled by PM

No more rats: New Zealand to exterminate all introduced predators

The New Zealand government has announced a "world-first" project to make the nation predator free by 2050. The prime minister, John Key, said on Monday it would undertake a radical pest extermination programme - which if successful would be a global first - aiming to wipe out the introduced species of rats, stoats and possums nation-wide in a mere 34 years.

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