A pop-up ‘trap library’ event is planned in Queenstown next weekend, as part of next week’s Conservation Week efforts, this year themed ‘‘take action for nature’’.
Department of Conservation (DoC) and Whakatipu Wildlife Trust have been running the trap library from the Whakatipu-Wai-Māori/Queenstown DoC Visitor Centre for the past two years — during that time, Queenstowners have caught 106 predators using traps from the library.
Nearly half of those were possums, with the balance made up of rats, stoats, ferrets and the odd hedgehog.
At the pop-up, the trust will also have a fundraising barbecue on the go, to help support local community trapping groups, with DoC rangers and trust reps available to help answer questions, provide instructions on how to use traps, and which ones to use.
The trap library offers ‘Trapinators’ and ‘Flipping Timmys’, for possums, DOC200s, A24 and Poditraps for mustelids such as stoats, weasels and ferrets, and DOC150s and Lumberjacks for rodents.
The pop-up trap library’s being held at Mitre 10 Mega from 11am till 2pm next Saturday.
