Invasive Species Threaten Native Biodiversity in Maungaharuru Goat Management Area

Although habitat loss and modification remains a threat to native biodiversity, a more an equally serious threat is from invasive introduced species. Plant pests and animal pests pose the greatest single threat to our remaining natural ecosystems and habitats and threatened native species. They damage habitats and important ecosystem processes, and compete with indigenous species for food, and prey directly on them.

The Maungaharuru Goat Co-ordinated Management Area (CMA) is finishing its twentieth year of control. Reinvasion continues to be an ongoing risk with high to medium populations still current on most boundaries.