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… Read More »Video from Pilot Programme camera

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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More »Progress Update

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… Read More »Arapaoa Kiwi… its a new project and its exciting!