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Wednesday <strong>September</strong> 9 <strong>2020</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
MEAT<br />
Nine-year-old’s<br />
predator-free bid<br />
• By Devon Bolger<br />
THERE IS a stoat in<br />
Prebbleton that should be<br />
worried. Very worried.<br />
Because nine-year-old<br />
Oliver McLaren is on a<br />
mission to rid Prebbleton<br />
of pests.<br />
Oliver has always been<br />
passionate about conservation.<br />
After being donated<br />
a rap trap he started what<br />
he is calling Predator<br />
Free Prebbleton with the<br />
help of his mother Rachel<br />
McLaren.<br />
She said they have<br />
caught hedgehogs, mice<br />
and rats so far.<br />
“We have heard there is<br />
a stoat in the reserve so we<br />
are trying to catch at the<br />
moment,” she said.<br />
A community workshop<br />
was planned earlier this<br />
month for people to come<br />
along and get more information<br />
on trapping but<br />
this had to be postponed<br />
due to Covid-19.<br />
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The idea for the group<br />
first started when Oliver<br />
took part in the Children’s<br />
University programme.<br />
“You had to go and have<br />
different experiences and<br />
learn different things and<br />
he went to a predator-free<br />
day in Halswell,” she said.<br />
“They gave him a trap to<br />
take home and he loved it.”<br />
McLaren said Oliver<br />
would go and check it<br />
every day to see if he<br />
caught a rat.<br />
The family’s property<br />
backs on to the Prebbleton<br />
Nature Park so Oliver decided<br />
that would be a good<br />
place to lay some traps.<br />
“He contacted the<br />
Halswell group and asked<br />
if he could buy some more<br />
traps and they actually<br />
gave him four more.<br />
“So we started off with<br />
five traps in the park and<br />
started catching heaps<br />
then.”<br />
It did not stop there for<br />
ON A<br />
MISSION:<br />
Oliver McLaren<br />
with the four<br />
traps that were<br />
donated to the<br />
Predator Free<br />
Prebbleton<br />
group he<br />
started. <br />
the young conservationist.<br />
At school, Oliver was<br />
tasked with choosing<br />
a project to work on<br />
throughout the year.<br />
Oliver said he decided<br />
to fundraise and get the<br />
equipment to be able to put<br />
traps around Prebbleton.<br />
“The wood has been<br />
donated by ITM and we<br />
got some funding from the<br />
district council.’’<br />
With the donations,<br />
Oliver had enough wood to<br />
make 60 traps.<br />
A local man also made a<br />
stencil for him to be able to<br />
spray paint Predator Free<br />
Prebbleton on them.<br />
The group is registered<br />
with trap.nz so if people<br />
have their own traps they<br />
can link up on the website<br />
and log what they catch.<br />
•If you want to get<br />
involved, follow<br />
the Predator Free<br />
Prebbeton Facebook<br />
page.<br />
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