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Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus
OUR POTENTIAL TO OUR TRACK RECORD:
RESPOND TO THE Economic impact from our five
COVID CRISISRD current projects (over five years)
Predator Free 2050 Limited has created
a portfolio of investment-ready projects
from its pathfinder and pipeline projects
around the country.
150
These projects have capacity to
create over 300 jobs in the next 12
full and part time jobs.
months, and over 450 over their
five-year term.
Salaries and wages to project employees
Projects will be delivered by established and contractors
council, trust and iwi entities with with a value of
contract management oversight by
Predator Free 2050 Limited, based on
existing proven protocols.
Project design and methodologies will
More than
ensure enduring conservation outcomes
and provide significant impetus to the
national PF2050 goal.
Advisory services and product
supply chains are well established in property leases,
and will generate added stimulus in consultancies and
manufacturing and innovation. business activity.
Newly created jobs will span
management, administration, technical Orders for over
120,000
and research advice, monitoring,
community relations and field
operations, well suited to communities
that have lost jobs during the COVID
new control devices worth $8m.
economic slowdown.
Projects will be supported by new tools,
currently under development through Demand for more than
7,000
PGF funding, and the transfer of
methodologies being actively fostered
by Predator Free 2050 Limited’s
pathfinder projects and its partner new wireless technology
agencies. nodes and hubs worth $5m.
FUNDING STIMULUS
2020-25 OPPORTUNITY
Northland
$1m pa / 18 FTEs
Auckland
$2m pa / 30 FTEs
Whakatane
$0.74 m pa / 18 FTEs
Te Urewera Hawke’s Bay
Taranaki
$0.32m pa / 11 FTEs $3.2m pa / 35 FTEs
$3.4m pa / 30 FTEs
$10m pa / 200 FTEs
Wellington
$3m pa / 34 FTEs
South Westland
$4m pa / 50 FTEs Banks Peninsula
$6.8m pa / 53 FTEs
Queenstown - Wanaka
$3.9m pa / 116 FTEs
Dunedin
$1.68m pa / 30 FTEs
Southland
$3.2m pa / 27 FTEs
These expressions of interest were solicited from active
and pipeline projects as potential contributions to a post
COVID economic response. While projects have co-funding
12 Regions
commitments they do not meet the 2 to 1 requirement usually
applied to Predator Free 2050 Limited projects. $34m per annum
The company is also working with the Department of
Conservation and philanthropic partners on scoping future
projects at Rakiura, the Chatham islands, Te Manahuna Aoraki, 457 FTEs
the Central North Island, Coromandel and the Far North.
Photo by Shaun Lee
Project Jobs in Jobs after Funding Funding
Year 1 5 years required required
(per annum) (five years)
Northland 18 18 $1m $5m
Auckland 20 30 $2m $10m
Whakatane 18 18 $0.74m $3.7m
Te Urewera 11 11 $0.32m $1.6m
Hawke’s Bay 35 35 $3.2m $16m
Taranaki 30 30 $3.4m $17m
(100) ($40m) (200m)
Wellington 34 34 $3m $15m
South Westland 3 50 $4m $20m
Banks Peninsula 26 53 $6.8m $34m
Queenstown - Wanaka 58 116 $3.9m $19.5m
Dunedin 30 30 $1.68m $8.4m
Southland 22 27 $3.2m $16m
PF2050Ltd administration(3%) 3 5 $1m $5m
307 457 34.24m $171.2m
STIMULATE
Northland
Photo by Ken Smith
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$1m pa Thriving wildlife sanctuaries
around the Bay of Islands
WORKFORCE CREATED
18 FTEs
This project doubles the capacity network of forest remnants linked by flyways to already
of predator control teams in under predator suppression by thriving island sanctuaries.
the region led by the Northland community and iwi groups.
Regional Council. When tourism returns to the
Their effort will be intensified, region it will be with enhanced
With a Whangarei Heads project creating jobs in team natural capital and a community
underway through Provincial management and planning, track steeped in mātauranga and
Growth Fund support, this marking and cutting, device conservation knowhow.
investment replicates the model installation and servicing, and
in the Bay of Islands where a results monitoring.
ready workforce is available.
This is a legacy project for the
Predator Free Bay of Islands
The 50,000ha area has several Northland region, creating safe
will create employment for local
defendable peninsulas and a wildlife havens on the mainland
people effected by the reduction
in local and international tourism
in the Bay of Islands.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020
STIMULATE
Auckland
Photo by Mark in New Zealand
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$2m pa New predator free
islands and peninsulas
WORKFORCE CREATED surrounding city
30 FTEs
Preparatory work by Auckland of translating community Once complete, the ecological
Council means Kawau Island and enthusiasm into individual and economic potential of
the peninsulas of the Kaipara and landowner consents. Operational these Auckland regions will be
Manukau harbours are ready for units then establish a network, transformed.
investment in predator control set and maintain devices until
operations. all predators in the target
area have been reached,
These easily defendable rural undertake monitoring and verify
landscapes lend themselves eradication.
to application of well proven
methodologies. 34,000ha of land in the South There are several projects that
Head and Tapora areas of the have the enthusiastic support of
Laying traps and bait stations Kaipara, the Awhitu peninsula
in the densities required for the community and mana whenua
and Kawau island have been that can be used to stimulate
eradication requires door- earmarked for such intense
knocking teams capable employment and economic
operations. potential.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020
STIMULATE
Whakatane
/ rohe of Ngāti Awa
Photo by Ulrich Lange
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$0.74m pa Possum freedom across
the rohe (4,700ha)
WORKFORCE CREATED
18 FTEs
This proposal builds on The Korehaha Whakahau project Mā te ngaruru ō ngā whenua
the planning and indicative is able to be fully operational maru ō Ngāti Awa, ka noho
commitments already undertaken by August, helping to offset the momoho nga taonga koiora,
by Predator Free 2050 Limited economic disruption caused by taonga tuku iho, hei oranga
and Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa. the COVID response and the whānui mō ngā whakatipuranga
Whakaari eruption.
It fast tracks plans to bring the As the lands of Ngāti Awa
wider Whakatane area under a The project is expected to flourishes, opportunities
possum eradication operation, by serve as a template for similar abound for future generations
creating a 18-person operations ambitions among neighbouring to enjoy their unique ecological,
team, mixing skilled and iwi. environmental and cultural
untrained workers. uniqueness
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020
STIMULATE
Te Urewera
Photo by Michal Klajban
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$0.32m pa Proof of concept predator
freedom around Lake
WORKFORCE CREATED Waikaremoana.
11 FTEs
Developed by Group Ōnukurani Whareama Peninsulas of Lake Achieving eradication at these
and endorsed by Tuhoe’s Waikaremoana and removal of scales is likely to be achievable
executive, the Waikaremoana rats on the islets of Te Oneatahu, with current methods and
“Halo” project explores the Rahui, Motungarara and Te will provide proof of concept
potential of predator freedom in Arakoau in Lake Waikāreiti. and confidence to pursue
Te Urewera. mātauranga-based predator
Labour-intensive methods freedom across the rohe.
The iwi wishes to explore will be used with an emphasis
alternatives to 1080 and on livelihood opportunities
will shift from suppression and alignment with the Lake “It isn’t like the old days when the
to eradication methods for Waikaremoana Great Walk and beautiful thunderous sounds of
possums and stoats on the other tourism investments under the birds were consistently heard.
1,500ha Puketukutuku and development by the iwi. It may well be that I have lost the
skills of listening to the sounds of
our forest?” – Menu Ripia.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020
STIMULATE
Hawke’s Bay
Photo by supplied
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$3.2m pa Mahia equipped to remove
all target predators.
WORKFORCE CREATED Rural predator control
ramped up.
35 FTEs
Mahia is one of Predator Free Elsewhere in the province the Using learnings from the
2050 Limited’s pathfinder Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s current Cape to City and Poutiri
projects. This investment brings large-scale feral cat, stoat, weasel Ao ō Tāne projects, predator
the completion date forward by and ferret control across rural knockdown can be delivered for
18 months, creating contracting landscapes will be scaled up to around $40 per hectare with
teams to complete possum 70,000 ha per annum. two-thirds of the investment
eradication across the 14,500ha pumped into local wages.
peninsula and building capacity This will create around 25-
for iwi and landowner groups to 30 new jobs in semi-skilled
lead the removal of mustelids employment in trapping and This investment would be
and rats and prepare for the environmental works, tied in delivered by a regional team and
relocation of kiwi. with hapū and iwi partners, contracting system with a proven
paving the way for a Predator record of delivery, underpinned by
Free Hawke’s Bay. strong biosecurity provisions.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020
STIMULATE
Taranaki
Photo by Rob Suisted
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$3.4m pa Possum removal
($40m pa) from ring plain/
WORKFORCE CREATED back country
30 FTEs
(200 FTEs)
Taranaki is Predator Free 2050 operations to the eastern hill Taranaki has well-established
Limited’s boldest project to date country, where Wild for Taranaki delivery methods for farm-based
– a 10-year, round-the-mountain is currently holding the line predator control and eradication
marathon. through community effort. with strong involvement from
iwi.
This investment shortens the Deploying contracting teams
path to completion, generating in the expanded area creates
30 new jobs to make the ring an additional 200 jobs capable
plain possum-free within four of clearing 350,000 hectares
years. of possums and transforming
the ecological outlook of the To fast track the current
The Taranaki Regional Council province. programme across 120,000
also has capacity to expand
hectares will require 20,000
locally made traps and associated
communications and monitoring
equipment.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020STIMULATE
Wellington
Photo by Ian Robertson
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$3m pa Predator freedom across
Wellington peninsula
WORKFORCE CREATED (30,000 ha)
34 FTEs
Predator Free Wellington has Committed institutional and co- “Once funding is committed,
created a template for urban funding support means over 90% we could start employing
predator eradication in New of new funding will be spent on
people within four weeks
Zealand. wages.
and begin the rollout across
Its Miramar operation was Fast tracking Wellington’s Wellington”
delivered in six months by 26 ambition from 10 to five years – James Wilcocks,
field contractors. is a generational opportunity to
transform the capital’s ecological
PFW Director
92% of Wellingtonians say future.
they support the Predator Free
Wellington goal and 70% are
already active trappers.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020STIMULATE
Sth Westland
Photo by Jesse Palmer
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$4m pa* 175,000ha of ‘mountains to
the sea’ predator freedom
WORKFORCE CREATED
50 FTEs*
*Subject to detailed analysis with community input.
Recent investments in the work created the opportunity for Analysis suggests that labour-
of Zero Invasive Predators an integrated and ambitious intensive predator knockdown
(ZIP) by the Department of ‘mountains to the sea’ operation and removal methods across
Conservation, Next Foundation in an area centred on Franz lowland settlement, farm and
and Predator Free 2050 Limited Joseph, Whataroa and Harihari. forest landscapes is best to
have demonstrated the feasibility precede operations in remote
of removing predators from This project would work with areas, which lends the approach
remote back country areas of iwi (Te Rūnanga o Makaawhio), to significant employment
South Westland. residents, the business opportunities.
community, central and local
Commitment by OSPRI to Tb government to create a locally-
eradication in the region, and led and ambitious step-change With interest and knowledge
predator removal methodologies predator free project for South across sectors and agencies this
being used successfully in mixed Westland. has the potential to become a
farming and forest landscapes defining project for the Predator
elsewhere in the country, has Free 2050 effort.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020STIMULATE
Banks Peninsula
Photo by Shaun Lee
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$6.8m pa A Banks Peninsula with
ecological resilience and
WORKFORCE CREATED biodiversity restoration
potential
53 FTEs
An operational plan for the Its model is to utilise a core team This would create a total
whole of Banks Peninsula has of 28 staff across leadership, workforce of around 50 FTEs
been drawn up by the Banks science, communications, over five years to deliver a
Peninsula Conservation Trust finance, admin and field biodiversity-rich and ecologically-
in response to the COVID coordination roles, and to resilient Banks Peninsula.
employment situation. contract eradication teams to
work in 20,000 ha blocks in the
The trust delivers operations on Southern Bays, Western Valley,
behalf of the 14 project partner Kaituna Valley and Gebbies Pass Pest Free Banks Peninsula
organisations and could expand areas. / Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū
from its current footprint of has wide benefits, adding
20,000 ha around Kaitorete and A favoured approach is to recruit resilience to ecological systems,
Wildside to a peninsula-wide locally for these teams, a model supporting Ngāi Tahu values,
115,000 ha. backed by local runanga, Onuku and backstopping community
and Koukourarata development, sustainable
agriculture and tourism.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020STIMULATE
Queenstown
- Wanaka
Photo supplied by Southern Lakes Sanctuary
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$3.9m pa A Southern Lakes
Sanctuary of unrivalled
WORKFORCE CREATED scale and ambition.
116 FTEs
The Whakatipu Wildlife Trust Over five years the trust The project enjoys very strong
supports and unifies the work would oversee eradication of support from institutional
of 45 independent community predators from 45,000 ha and partners, formal iwi liaison
trapping groups in the Wakatipu intensive control over 211,000 groups, businesses and
Basin. ha of critical wildlife habitat. landowners, with current co-
Operations will focus initially funding commitments standing
It has put together a bold on the Makarora, Matukituki, at $10m.
plan designed to stimulate Dart-Rees and Queenstown-
employment in the region and Arrowtown catchments. “An unprecedented large-scale
boost its vision of a sanctuary predator trapping effort that has
across 660,000 hectares, helping The project will create 116 no equal in New Zealand”.
protect 20 threated and at-risk jobs at a range of skill levels: – Wildlands Scoping Study,
species. 24 project support staff, 80 Feb 2020.
field workers and 12 research
personnel. It will draw on locally-
available skills and specialists.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020STIMULATE
Dunedin
Photo by Rod Morris
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$1.68m pa Possum free Otago
Peninsula and North
WORKFORCE CREATED harbour areas with
expanded project reach
30 FTEs into the Taieri plains
Predator Free Dunedin’s well- Engagement and contracting This investment creates a
managed delivery teams – teams will also move operations lasting legacy for the region’s
backed by over 20 central and eastward to tackle possums populations of tītī, albatross and
local government, community, and mustelids in the 72,500ha yellow-eyed penguin and its
research and iwi entities – are area between the Taieri and iconic forest birds, the rifleman,
ready to intensify and extend Waikouaiti Rivers, utilising a South Island robin and South
efforts to boost the country’s rolling front approach. Island kākā.
wildlife capital.
3,500 Dunedin residents will
Otago Peninsula operations will be engaged to create a city “We can engage 9,000 people
be fast tracked and the zero- sanctuary, building on the sense directly with volunteering
possum objective extended of shared purpose and collective activities and bring 120,000
to the 10,000ha halo area achievement enabled by beating people together in the vision of a
surrounding Orokonui Sanctuary. the spread of COVID-19. predator-free Dunedin.”
– Rhys Millar
PFD Project Manager
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020STIMULATE
Southland
Photo by Jeremy Pierce
STIMULUS NEEDED OUTCOME GENERATED
$3.2m pa Greater Bluff area liberated
from possums and
WORKFORCE CREATED mustelids as a test bed for
Predator Free Southland.
27 FTEs
Existing governance and Contracting teams will be It anchors the Predator Free
coordinator arrangements mobilised to cut tracks, and Southland governance group’s
supported by Environment establish trapping and bait plans for a step change in in
Southland and other institutional station lines with support from regional predator control and its
partners will be accelerated. community engagement rangers vision of predator freedom.
and technical support staff.
The internationally-recognised
Awarua wetland area around The project secures culturally
Invercargill and Bluff will be the important seabird corridors and Planning conducted by the
focus of eradication operations wildlife reserves and creates an governance group during the past
over 65,000ha. essential biosecurity border for a 6 months and strong support
Predator Free Rakiura. from community groups and
stakeholders across the region
means that more than 22 jobs can
be mobilised before the end
of 2020.
Predator Free jobs for the post-COVID economic stimulus April 2020This investment utilises the Around 1.5m hectares of
project management model biodiversity-rich urban, farmed
and eradication-focussed and forest land will be brought
methodologies Predator Free under operations that aim to
2050 Limited has developed permanently remove at least one
since becoming operational in of our target species, possums,
2017. rats and mustelids.
Existing and well-incubated This ensures that the investment
pipeline projects with strong has a lasting legacy and drives
institutional backing, iwi and research innovation and
community support have product development that will
capacity to quickly create jobs on be essential for the long-term
the ground. Predator Free 2050 goal.
Over 300 jobs can be created This is an opportunity to link
in the first year, some within the government’s COVID
four weeks of funding becoming economic response to what has
available. been described as the country’s
‘Apollo Programme’ – mobilising
These are long-term jobs, with
the New Zealand work force to
over 450 full time positions to be
safeguard what makes us unique
created over the five-year term
in the world.
of the investment.
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