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Buy products to control feral cats, ferrets, stoats or weasels by clicking the circular icons at the top of this page. FERRETS WERE INTRODUCED TO NEW ZEALAND from Europe in the 1880s, along with stoats and weasels, to control rabbits that were breeding out of control. By 1990 ferrets were well established in the wild and have definitely played a role in the decline of native birds like the kiwi, weka and blue duck, and the extinction of kakapo on the mainland. Ferrets are known to carry bovine tuberculosis. They threaten the existence of ground-nesting birds, native lizards and insects. STOATS ARE CUNNING PREDATORS and regarded as “public enemy number one” for New Zealand birds. WEASELS PREY ON New Zealand’s native lizards, invertebrates and birds. FERAL CATS REAP HAVOC on native fauna. They can breed two to four times each year, averaging four kittens per litter, quickly re-occupying areas where there are food sources. |