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Otago Peninsula has been officially declared possum-free after years of hard mahi.
The milestone was officially marked on Tuesday with more than 24,000 possums removed from about 10,000 hectares.
For more than 15 years, the community has led the charge to eliminate possums on the Otago Peninsula.
Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group chairperson Hoani Langsbury said they would not have reached possum free without the community and many volunteers.
"Being community driven has enabled us to get onto nearly all of the properties. There's virtually no one on the Otago Peninsula now that probably even realises that we still had possums up until recently because roadkill is something that the generations coming through now have never seen," he said.
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