Topic: Invasive species clear · back to the knowledge map
Most practices in: South Africa (4) · Australia (3) · United States of America (3)
Since 1995 South Africa has paid the unemployed to clear water-hungry invasive alien plants — 2.5M+ hectares cleared and 300,000+ people employed …
National programme paying contractors to eliminate invasive wilding conifers from ~180,000 ha/year; wilding conifers remove up to 40% of catchment water. NZD …
NSW has removed over 9,000 feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park toward a legal target of 3,000 by 2027; a 2023 RMIT …
Australia's Indigenous Rangers Program funds 40+ ranger groups across northern Australia to control feral pigs, cats and invasive weeds like gamba grass; …
Ten island watershed partnerships co-manage 2.6M acres of Hawaiian native forest through fencing and invasive/ungulate removal. ~US$2.5M annual state funding; US$12M leveraged …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
Since 1941, Dutch regional water boards have run a nationwide muskrat/coypu control programme to stop dike-burrowing damage; in 2025 they trapped 84,438 …
Goat and rat eradication (2016–2018) on the barren islet of Redonda triggered a peer-reviewed sixfold+ rebound in an endemic ground lizard and …
Since the late 1990s, Mexican NGO GECI has removed 60 populations of 13 invasive mammal species from 39 Pacific islands, restoring 85% …
GEF-funded campaign by Galápagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation removed 140,000+ feral goats from 500,000+ ha across Pinta, Santiago and …
City of Cape Town and TNC fund invasive alien tree clearance since 2018. By Oct 2023: 46,000+ ha cleared across 7 mountain …
EU LIFE programme (2019–2025, LIFE18 NAT/PT/000927) removed feral cats and invasive plants from Ria Formosa's barrier islands; Audouin's Gull nests rose from …
From 1976, Durrell, Mauritius's National Parks Service and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation eradicated invasive goats (1979) and rabbits (1986) from Round Island. …
South Korea's Ministry of Environment ran a nationwide Nutria Eradication Project (2014-2022) using GPS-tracked field teams and capture incentives; recorded nutria habitat …
South Africa's national public works programme paying community workers to rehabilitate degraded wetlands through invasive alien plant removal, bio-engineering and re-vegetation; 1,300+ …
New Zealand’s NZD 1.185 billion pandemic-recovery conservation programme (2020–2025): 225 DOC-led projects employed 11,000+ workers for invasive species control and habitat restoration. …
An AUD 15.5m operation cleared ship rats and house mice from Lord Howe Island's 1,455 ha in 2019; official surveys confirmed the …
EU LIFE project (2015–2022, €1.79M) eradicated black rats from inhabited Ventotene — among the largest inhabited islands ever freed of rats — …
A three-phase cat eradication (2002–2006) let seabirds recolonize Ascension Island's mainland after roughly 180 years of absence: Ascension frigatebirds grew from 2 …
A $200,000 Coca-Cola Foundation grant funded a 6.6-mile fence protecting 1,400 acres of native Koʻolau forest on Oʻahu from invasive species, safeguarding …
Argentina and Chile have run a binational GEF/FAO-funded programme since 2008 to control 65,000-150,000 invasive North American beavers damaging up to 40,000 …
Japan's Ministry of the Environment declared the small Indian mongoose eradicated from Amami Oshima in 2024 after a 25-year, ¥3.57bn campaign; a …
Three helicopter-baiting phases (2011-2015) cleared invasive rats and mice from 108,723 ha of sub-Antarctic South Georgia, the world's largest rodent eradication. Declared …
A 2014 rat eradication on Ile Vache Marine and two Salomon Atoll islets, confirmed rat-free in 2017, let seabirds recover — and …
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