50th

In 2014 New Zealand celebrated 50 years of rodent eradications in New Zealand. To celebrate, a symposium on rodent eradications was held on the 10 September 2014 at the University of Auckland. The full-day symposium consisted of a series of talks by those involved at the time in pioneering eradications, presenting a retrospective of the eradication operation, the benefits to the islands today, and looking forward to the future of island conservation and rodent eradication. An open-access special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology was produced in conjunction with the symposium.

The program consisted of a series of 25 minute talks, recorded and available as podcasts here:

Vice Chancellor
Welcome

Mike Lee
Island conservation

Rowley Taylor
Early rodent ecology studies

Brian & Biz Bell
Early rodent eradications

Bruce Thomas
Hawea and Breaksea

David Towns
Mercury Islands restoration

Mel Galbraith
Tiritiri Matangi restoration

Richard Griffiths
Rangitoto-Motutapu eradication

Rod Neureuter
The Noises

Jeff Cook
Treasure Islands biosecurity

Jamie MacKay
Mouse eradication