While we receive funding from various organisations (and are very grateful for their funding), it has to be applied for each year, it is contestable, and is not guaranteed. We… Read More »Sponsorship Needed

Recently recorded on one of our Pilot Programme cameras. Here is a video of rat interacting with a trap over a period of 10 minutes (shortened to 36 seconds). https://fb.watch/gdQzd60rSx/

Monitoring update on the Pilot Programme Traps: Last week Steve and Sue Dawson checked all the traps lines and serviced the trail cameras as part of the Pilot Programme which… Read More »Progress Update

Our Community Trapping Programme is now underway! After a six-month delay waiting for our traps to arrive, we finally started distributing traps to residents on Arapaoa Island and the surrounding… Read More »Progress Update

Our pilot programme on Arapaoa Island is underway! Our trustees Steve Dawson, Mark Denzie, Ben Wybourne, and with the expertise of a very experienced trapper Darren Peters from Good Nature,… Read More »Progress Update

Exciting times ahead in the first week of September as we begin our pilot programme with the installation of our traps and cameras on site. This will be a big… Read More »Progress Update

Great news, our community traps have finally arrived! These traps and monitoring are part of the first stage of our project, along with our pilot programme also soon to commence.… Read More »Progress Update

This very bright looking Marlborough Green Gecko (Naultinus manukanus) was spotted while Arapaoa Kiwi trustees, Mark Denize and Steve Dawson, were up the Narawhia track on Arapaoa Island recently to… Read More »Marlborough Green Gecko (Naultinus manukanus)

Track preparation this week with our trustees Mark Denize and Steve Dawson busy clearing an old DOC track on the boundary of the DOC reserve and Mark’s property above Te… Read More »Progress Update

We are excited and inspired as we prepare and build our Pilot Programme traps for deployment in early September. Thank you again to Lotteries NZ and the help of volunteers.

The Arapaoa Kiwi project is an incredibly ambitious project to eradicate stoats from Arapaoa Island and re-introduce kiwi to the island in the next 5-7 years.Arapaoa is the 13th largest… Read More »Arapaoa Kiwi… its a new project and its exciting!