Bay Harbour: March 23, 2022
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Wednesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
NEWS 3<br />
Encouraging start to pest control project<br />
• By Susan Sandys<br />
A $10 MILLION pest-control<br />
operation has been launched<br />
at Kaitōrete Spit near Birdlings<br />
Flat, scoring 18 hedgehogs<br />
and one stoat in its first four<br />
nights.<br />
Pest Free Banks Peninsula staff<br />
are rolling out 280 traps along<br />
the 5500ha, 25km, spit in the<br />
coming five weeks.<br />
Last week they laid the<br />
first 50 traps, but not all were<br />
operational each night as they<br />
had to make improvements after<br />
gusts of wind and mice set some<br />
off.<br />
Project leader Sarah Wilson<br />
said on Friday she and fellow<br />
staff had been thrilled with<br />
the kill count so far, and were<br />
looking forward to ridding the<br />
area not only of hedgehogs and<br />
stoats, but also possums, feral<br />
cats, weasels and ferrets.<br />
“Hedgehogs might be known<br />
by some as Mrs Tiggy-Winkles,<br />
but in this country the number<br />
of lizards and important<br />
invertebrates they munch every<br />
night, along with eggs and<br />
chicks, is phenomenal,” Wilson<br />
said.<br />
“We were thrilled about the<br />
stoat (caught on the first night)<br />
in particular, because stoats are<br />
very problematic, especially for<br />
the banded dotterel.”<br />
The spit is a breeding site for<br />
BIODIVERSITY: Pest Free Banks Peninsula team members Georgia Grace (left) and<br />
Jayden Lum install cameras on Kaitōrete Spit, which is a breeding site for the banded<br />
dotterel and many other species.<br />
the banded dotterel and other<br />
bird species. It is home to two<br />
flightless moth species, both<br />
endemic to the spit, as well as the<br />
katipō, several lizard species, and<br />
threatened plants.<br />
It is highly regarded for its<br />
biodiversity, and was once a<br />
major source of food for tangata<br />
whenua and a key travel route for<br />
Ngāi Tahu.<br />
Team members are using a<br />
mixture of kill and live capture<br />
traps, which have remote<br />
reporting nodes to show when<br />
they have triggered.<br />
Wilson said the project had<br />
huge support from Taumutu<br />
Rūnanga. Members had been<br />
helping prevent reinvasion of the<br />
spit by supporting a community<br />
trapping project at Taumutu on<br />
the southern end.<br />
Since June last year, Taumutu<br />
residents had caught 27 feral<br />
cats in live traps and had them<br />
humanely euthanised.<br />
The five-year Pest Free Banks<br />
Peninsula programme comprises<br />
the spit and <strong>23</strong>,000ha in the<br />
Akaroa area called the extended<br />
wildside.<br />
Key funders behind the<br />
organisation are Environment<br />
Canterbury, Predator Free<br />
2050 and the Department of<br />
Conservation. Its ultimate goal<br />
is to free Banks Peninsula from<br />
mammalian pests by 2050.<br />
TRAPPING: Pest Free Banks<br />
Peninsula team members<br />
Ollie Rutland-Sims (left)<br />
and Alex Albright with<br />
Lincoln University student<br />
Mel Barnett, plan to wipe<br />
out hedgehogs, mustelids,<br />
possums and feral cats<br />
from the spit.<br />
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