Last month, an annual review published by the New Zealand Parliament’s environment select committee revealed the price of the mission to catch that stoat: nearly half a million New Zealand ...

July 13 (UPI) --Passengers waiting in a line at New Zealand's Auckland International Airport received a surprise when a feral stoat ran through the area. Lou Baddiley said she was waiting in the ...

Except our target wasn’t rats at all. We were after stoats, small carnivorous mammals introduced to New Zealand in the 1870s that are especially deadly to native birds. These animals are lean ...

Many were introduced by humans. For instance, stoats were brought to New Zealand in the 1800s as a way to reduce the number of rabbits — themselves shipped in by humans — that were destroying ...

particularly the stoat, which is in the mustelid family. And then, yeah, about 75 years ago, 1950 or so, there were some huge efforts made to find what were thought to be the last living kakapo deep ...