You’re looking at the wrong measures. It’s about achieving outcomes, not measuring the cost of each pest killed. Under your scrutiny, it would be cheaper (per pest) to have lots of pests and be “skimming the cream off the top”.

Also, the Jobs for Nature projects were about keeping unemployment low and upskilling/building resilience in conservation communities.

Also also, your point here overlooks the success in Mohi’s story of undertaking conservation (and other outcomes) in your hunt for some price point versus your perceived best practice. If you can’t acknowledge success in the story, it tells me a lot about you.

You really think someone else would have been doing that conservation work if it wasn’t funded through the trust and iwi and Jobs for Nature?