Te Manahuna Aoraki trapping project culls over 5400 pests in Mackenzie Basin
Te Manahuna Aoraki's Tom Smits checks traps in the Godley area after lockdown. A massive trapping programme has provided native birds, lizards and other species with 5400 more chances to survive in the Mackenzie Basin. The multi-agency Te Manahuna Aoraki project, launched with the ambition of turning the basin area in South Canterbury into a predator-free zone by 2040, has trapped 2656 hedgehogs, 441 rats, 1839 stoats, ferrets and weasels and 477 feral cats since December 2018. Project manager Simone Cleland said although hedgehogs were easy to trap in that they were willing to walk into t...
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