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You are here: Home / Workshop Presentations / Kiwi Coast – Mid North: Progress Towards Landscape Scale Predator Control

Kiwi Coast – Mid North: Progress Towards Landscape Scale Predator Control

Kiwi Coast Trapping Workshop at Komanawa farm, Kaikanui Road, Opuawanga, Northland. May 20, 2018. Photo by Malcolm Pullman www.photosnz.co.nzSpeaker: Andrew Mentor
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Mid North Coordinator, Kiwi Coast

  • 16 established groups covering 45,000 hectares
  • Pests removed in 2017 = 25,000
  • 42% of Kiwi Coast Pest Tally
  • 11 new groups emerging
  • 20 Year History of Waimate Landcare
  • Puketi Trust & Project Island Song doing the “hard yards” for threatened species.
  • NRC support of Landcare groups trapping on private land 12+ years
  • Multiple wildlife corridors from The Bay to Puketi Forest
  • Kokako, kiwi, totouwai (NI robin), tieke (saddleback), kakariki (red crowned parakeet), pateke (brown teal), makatu (bittern), NZ dabchick (weweia), kaka, matata (fernbird).
  • Challenges: Uncontrolled dogs, Kiwi road deaths, Stoats, Trap-shy stoats, Ferrets, Pigs
  • Solutions? FNDC By-law, education and signage, Road speed restrictions and signage, More traps & upskilling trappers, Winter toxin pulse, Quick response to sightings, Education and culling?

 

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