Trapping Update from Manawa Karioi.
We had a great turnout to Predator Free Wellington training with many familiar faces from the Manawa Karioi and Tawatawa trapping teams, about 18 volunteers in total.
The volunteers were trained on installing chew cards for monitoring, bait stations, and DOC200 traps.
Dan Henry from Predator Free Miramar helped with the training and gave top tips on where to install traps.
Visitors to Manawa Karioi will soon start to see a lot of blue flagging appearing as the bait lines are installed. The bait stations are being filled with pre-feed, this is non-toxic and gives the critters a free meal whilst they get used to the new devices. In the coming months this will be changed to toxic bait. When this happens the trapping team will remove any catches from the traps and dispose of them in the garbage to minimise the chance of secondary poisoning of dogs and predatory birds.
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If you haven’t already, sign up with Predator Free Wellington to get a trap/bait station in your backyard. PFW supply the traps/stations and do the checking!
You just need to give permission to have one on your property. For more information go to https://www.pfw.org.nz/island-bay-to-cbd/
Map of catches so far this year. You can see the hot spot of rat activity near the ducks.
Map of devices going into Manawa Karioi as part of the Predator Free Wellington Phase 2 Buffer Zone.