Muriwai Pest Control Program PEST FREE MURIWAI
Latest news for this project is the arrival
of four Timms traps for possums. Funding
for these is through our recent Rodney
Local Board grant. This grant also covers
the cost of your bait for this current year of
pulse control. We appreciate the support
of the Rodney Local Board.
The possum traps are available initially
to members of our Pest Free Muriwai
community on a “first in first served”
basis, perhaps 4-6 weeks at each location.
We will see how this works and what the
demand is allowing for some trial and
error. We already have reports of possum kills.
Despite the ongoing trapping by the
rangers and volunteers, they are about.
What we don’t know is the size of the
problem. Hopefully we will get some
useful data from the deployment of these
traps. Elsewhere you can read about the
extension to the “Ring Fence” project.
These two projects are designed to work
together to create a predator-controlled
area in residential Muriwai.
Possum control represents a “next step”
in the Pest Free Muriwai project. First year
was focussed on rats and Warwick says
we have pretty comprehensive coverage to
date. There are still a few gaps and if you
are not on our database and would like
to be included please contact Warwick
or Gerry. Have a look at the maps posted
on the Community notice board and in
the window at the Top Shop to see if your
property is included.
Meanwhile, it’s important that we keep
up the rat control and maintain the
great record achieved to date. I want to
acknowledge the great work done by
Warwick running this project smoothly
with his emails, signs, mapping and
overall supervision. He is doing a great
job. He appreciates your participation and
the number of reports sent in with your
results. Please keep this up and also report
any problems you may have with rats in
the roof, garden, etc. We are keen to get
on top of this problem.
This year your bait is funded by RLB. We
hope we have got the numbers right with
enough to go around. Unfortunately, this
fund is no longer available, so we are
following up various funding avenues for
the future. We reckon our record to date
and the community involvement should
support a good argument for community
funding. If you know of any likely funding
avenues for this sort of project, we would
like to hear from you.
The recent NZ Garden Bird Survey 2018 is
a useful tool to help set parameters for the
success of pest control. Bird counts over
the years can be used as a gauge of control
success. We are hopeful a number of
people from Muriwai participated. Warwick warwickpeterson@hotmail.com Project 'Ring Fence Muriwai' In 2015 we initiated the “Ring Fence Muriwai” project to encircle the Muriwai residential area with predator traps targeting rats and mustelids (weasels and ferrets). Step One we created two lines with traps spaced every 100 metres total 15 DOC200 traps. The Northern Line runs from the beach to the fire station and the Te Kakenga Line from Coast Road to Houghton’s Bush Camp (Te Kakenga means ‘the ascent’). These traps came from the Southern Bays where they were replaced with 13 Goodnature A24 self-setting traps from an Auckland Council grant in 2015. At that time we also increased our predator control to cover four of the southern bays (Collins Bay, Pillow Lava Bay, Powell Bay and now Bartrum Bay) Please get in touch if you have any questions or want to be involved in this project. - Michael mrwilderness@gmail.com Muriwai, Muriwai Beach, West Coast, Auckland, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Action, Muriwai Environment, Muriwai Environmental Action, Waimauku, Kumeu, Helensville, Woodhill, Rewiti, Okiritoto, Black sand, gannets, gannet, gannet colony, muriwai gannet colony, Muriwai Sharks, Muriwai Dolphins, Muriwai surfing, Muriwai Conservation, Muriwai Dunes Restoration, Sand Dunes, Oaia, Motutara, Waitea, Edwin Mitchelson, Ngatira, Te Kawerau a Maki, Ngati Whatua, Te Taiao, Ngati Whatua O Kaipara, Kaiapara, South Head, Resource Management, Stream, River, Goldies Bush, Te Henga, Kauri Dieback, Kiwi, Tui, iwi, hapu, Maui Dolphins, Seabed Mining, KASM, Muriwai Seabed Mining, Piha, Bethells Beach, surf, surfing, fishing, fishing conservation, White Pointer, Bronze Whaler, fisheries conservation, west coast beaches, New Zealand, Rodney, Rodney Local Board, Herry Henley, Christine Rose, Ruth Atkinson, Phelan Pirrie, Cathy Thompson, Erin Griffin, Rewiti Marae, Houghtons Farm, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement, Community Planting Day, Community, Muriwai Park, Regional Park, Auckland Council, Plant Nursery, Community Composting, Compost, Waste recycling, Pest Control, Pests, Opossum, Weeds, Weedbusters, Children, Education, Muriwai Education, Village Green, Muriwai Village Green, Muriwai Beach Progressive Association, Progressive, Action, MBPA, Marine Mammal Conservation, Greenpeace, Forest and Bird, |
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