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Model to identify 17 species or higher-level taxons present in New Zealand. The model was trained on a set of approximately 2 million camera trap images from various projects across the country. These projects were run by multiple organizations and took place in a diverse range of habitats, using a variety of trail camera brands and models. The model has an overall validation accuracy, precision, and recall of 98%. When tested on an out-of-sample test set, the model scored 95%, 96%, and 94%, respectively. The model was designed to expedite the monitoring of New Zealand's invasive species (deer, possum, pig, cat, rodent, and mustelid) and requires to be deployed in conjunction with MegaDetector as a feature extractor. This pipeline is integrated into the open-source camera trap analysis software [EcoAssist](https://addaxdatascience.com/ecoassist/).