15 Jun 2023

War on wallabies ramps up in South Canterbury

From Checkpoint, 5:53 pm on 15 June 2023

The war on wallabies is ramping up with an almost 50km exclusion fence going up in South Canterbury.

They may look furry and cute, but these aussie visitors are a destructive pest that have been spreading outside the current containment zone.

So the goal is to lock them down and protect the McKenzie Basin from a full scale invasion.

Wallaby Programme Leader Brent Glentworth talks to Lisa Owen.