North Canterbury News: September 07, 2023
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RURAL LIFE<br />
34 The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>September</strong> 7, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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Trap library helping programme<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
Predatorcontrol wasacommon theme<br />
at last week’sKaikōura Zone<br />
Committeemeeting.<br />
Workiscontinuingtoraise<br />
awarenessofacommunity trap library<br />
developedlast year in partnership<br />
withthe Department of Conservation,<br />
while predator trapping workshops<br />
are being planned later this year.<br />
The Kaikōura Zone Committeemade<br />
agrant of $10,000, as part of its 2021/22<br />
zoneaction plan fund, to assist with<br />
the development of acommunity trap<br />
library.<br />
The traplibrary now consists of<br />
around 30 traps, Environment<br />
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Predator control ... Te Tau Wairehu oMarokura, an initiative of Te Rūnanga oKaikōura,<br />
is running predator control programme along the Kaikōura coastline.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY TE TAU WAIREHU OMAROKURA<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> Kaikōura zone facilitator<br />
Jodie Hoggard says.<br />
She says Department of<br />
Conservation community ranger<br />
JemimaRoddenisworking alongside<br />
Te Tau WairehuoMarokura, which<br />
was running aJobs for Nature funded<br />
predator control programme along the<br />
Kaikōura coastline.<br />
The two organisations are hoping to<br />
run apredator trappingworkshop<br />
later this year.Te Pūkenga Nelson<br />
MarlboroughInstituteofTechnology<br />
(NMIT)has also announced it will run<br />
atwoday predator trapping course in<br />
Kaikōura in October.<br />
The zone committee is alsoplanning<br />
aClarence WaiauToa communityhui<br />
RURAL<br />
at Clarence BridgeonWednesday,<br />
<strong>September</strong> 20.<br />
Mrs Hoggard saysthe hui was a<br />
chance to update the community on<br />
‘‘collaborative efforts on pestand<br />
weed control’’, as part of theClarence<br />
/WaiauToa CatchmentRiverbed<br />
control strategy.<br />
For more informationonthe NMIT<br />
predatortrappingcourse go to nmit.<br />
ac.nz/conservation.<br />
The Kaikōura Zone Committeevoted<br />
to sponsor two community members to<br />
attend the NMIT predatortrapping<br />
course, with applications closing at<br />
the end of <strong>September</strong>.<br />
Public interest journalismfunded<br />
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