Welcome to Sawland Environmental
Experts in the end-to-end delivery of specialist biosecurity and pest management services.
Experts in the end-to-end delivery of specialist biosecurity and pest management services.
Sawland Environmental provides experienced project management and delivery of specialist biosecurity and pest management services across New Zealand's conservation, biosecurity, agriculture and wider environmental sectors. We help our clients protect New Zealand's unique natural heritage and vital economic interests through careful planning, experienced leadership and responsible project delivery.
Introduced predators including possums, rodents and mustelids pose a significant threat to New Zealand's native species and ecosystems.
Sawland provides specialist pest management services supporting landscape-scale programmes designed to protect native wildlife and forests on public conservation land.
Read more about DOC's National Predator Control Programme here.
Learn more about why DOC uses 1080 to control introduced predators.
See operational updates and detailed maps of predator control on public conservation land.
See updates about track access and safety.
Learn more about Predator Free 2050.
Possums and other wildlife vectors play an important role in the transmission of bovine tuberculosis (TB), creating risks for New Zealand's livestock industries and rural economy.
Sawland provides specialist pest management capability supporting programmes designed to to reduce possum numbers and stop the spread of bovine TB.
Read more about TBfree NZ's TB eradication strategy here.
See details of OSPRI's national aerial pest control operations.
Find TB information for deer and pig hunters.
Learn more about 1080 and dogs.
Sawland personnel bring more than four decades of combined experience across conservation, biosecurity, pest management, project delivery and business management, including extensive experience in the planning and delivery of large and complex aerial pest management operations.
Our flexible project delivery model combines a small, accountable and responsive leadership team with access to experienced project personnel and specialist subcontractors. This allows us to bring together capability and operational capacity appropriate to the scale, location and requirements of each project.
Our Integrated Management System (IMS) integrates health and safety, quality and environmental management into the way we plan, manage, deliver and improve our services. Our system is independently certified to ISO 45001:2018 for occupational health and safety.
Successful project delivery depends on strong, trusted relationships. We work collaboratively with clients, project personnel, specialist subcontractors, suppliers and other stakeholders, with clear communication, transparency and a practical approach to managing risks, opportunities and changing project requirements.
Sawland's successful delivery of large-scale aerial pest management has demonstrated our project management systems, operational coordination and ability to bring multiple specialist providers together into an effective delivery team.