Bay Harbour: April 07, 2021

Wednesday April 7 2021 Bay Harbour News
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NEWS 11
COMMUNITY groups are
taking the lead on a new
trapping initiative in the Port
Hills to help with predator
control.
The city council is working
alongside community groups
in Purau Reserve, Birdsey
Reserve, Barnett Park and
Giants Nose Reserve.
It will be a six-month project
to investigate how trapping
can be safely supported in the
smaller community reserves.
This is a part of the city
council’s commitment to
make the Port Hills and Banks
Peninsula pest-free by 2050.
City council community
parks manager Al Hardy said
a training workshop was conducted
at the end of last year,
equipping volunteers with the
necessary skills needed to set
and monitor traps.
Many of those involved in
this project have already been
trapping in the reserves for
some time.
Said Hardy: “Other community
groups are new to
trapping but have been doing
planting and maintenance
work in their local park. They
see trapping as the next step
towards restoring urban biodiversity.”
Community group Friends
of Purau Reserve has been
working over the past few
years to weed and then replant
the reserve with indigenous
vegetation.
After discovering hedgehogs,
mice and rats in
the reserve, they are now
implementing a trapping
programme as part of this
EDUCATION:
Experienced
trapper Myles
Mackintosh talks
to Heathcote
Valley School
pupils about
predator trapping.
PHOTO:
NEWSLINE
Community helps with predator trapping
initiative.
Since first setting traps at
the beginning of March, they
have already caught four rats.
Said Purau Reserve volunteers
co-ordinator Bronwyn
McLennan: “I got involved because
we need a habitat bridge
or link between the city and
Banks Peninsula for our native
species, especially our birds,
to be safe and proliferate. It’s
possible that if we actively trap
predators in our cities that we
could create a haven for our
wildlife.”
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