Traps available for Motueka catchment residents and landowners
This is a call to action for all Motueka catchment residents and landowners. Register for cheap trap(s) by 30 April and get trapping!
Motueka Catchment Collective’s Pest Management Group wants to get everyone trapping in our catchment. The massive difference to our native wildlife – birds, insects, lizards, if everyone was trapping would be amazing!
By trapping pests such as rats and stoats on your own property, you will support other great predator control projects in our area, like Farmers 4 Whio and Friends of Flora and help birds thrive in your own backyard.
To help with this goal, the Pest Management Group has put aside some money to provide subsidised traps to the Motueka catchment community. The way it works is:
- You fill in this form indicating how many traps you’d like and what type. This must be done by 30 April – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G69JFGC
- The first trap you request will be purchased from the TDC using their trap subsidy (we can supply this on behalf of TDC). Further traps will be subsidised by MCC (same price as TDC traps). Please note that funding is limited so it may not be possible to supply all the traps you have requested. Max 5 traps per property. Costs are as follows:
- Rat tunnel + trap: $15 (usual cost is $40)
- DOC200: $50 (to catch stoats, rats and hedgehogs). Usual cost $120
- Trapinator possum trap: $20
3. You will pick up your traps from a designated MCC location (in some cases we may be able to deliver). We can provide advice and guidance on where and how to set up your traps, and how to check them and record your catches.
4. Once you sign up, we will send you a link to our spreadsheet for recording trap checks and catches. This information then gets transferred to trapnz.
5. A trapping expert from MCC can come and visit your property to check your traps and how you’re going within a month of you starting trapping. We will also connect you with other locals trapping in your area so you can compare notes.
We’re also looking for a team of trap builders so we can produce the traps more cheaply, so please fill in your details here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TF7CRRT if you’d like to get involved in trap building.
Here’s some resources you might like to check out about trapping –