Waipu School had a beautiful day for trapping on the last week of term 3. Apparently, the weweia thought so too and we got to see a pair together and each one came really close to us, which was very exciting. Steve told us that when the babies are born they ride on the adults […]

We checked our first station and discovered a very maggoty rat. We placed 3 new rat traps along our line and also came across a possum we had caught. As we approached station 5 we heard a rattling and banging in one of the traps. This was the first time we had discovered a very […]

Over the past 3 weeks, Steve and I have been checking the traps up at Pukekauri. The predators are definitely making themselves more evident again with the weather warming up. During the last week of term and the school holidays we have caught 9 rats or mice and 6 possums. With the addition of our […]

The Bream Bay College boys headed up to the trap line for their last check of the term last week and struck the jackpot! With the weather getting warmer, there is definitely some more pest movement and we had five traps with pests in them. Along the left hand trap line there were three ship […]

The Bream Bay College team headed up to Pukekauri on Thursday last week for their turn to check the traps. It was another stunning blue sky day and the temperature was much milder than the last time we were up there! Jacque from Enviroschools came up with us to see what we’ve been getting up […]

This was Te Ara Kahika/ OTP’s 2nd solo trip to the dam this term. It included Piper, Carter, Jayden and Scott. We caught 2 rats and a mouse. We set up a new trap at station 1 for possums. Scott drilled the possum box into a plank of wood to attach it to a tree. […]

Ruakākā School visited Pukekauri today to check out the traps and see if we could spot the elusive Weweia. It was a successful trip, the sun was shining and we had two traps with rats in them. One of our rat traps had a little visitor hiding in it, a baby weta had decided it […]

Hi we are Kirwan, Georgia, Carter, Scott, Piper and Jayden from One Tree Point School. Today was our turn to check the traps as the Pukekauri Dam. Sadly, we only caught one rat, which appeared to have been trapped only by its foot (a bit of a sad end for that rat). During our trip […]

Today was our last trip to Pukekauri dam with the students before the holidays. It turned out to be a very interesting visit! We began our trap check and reached station 7, where Steve and I had left a rat in our DOC200 the previous week in the hopes of luring something else in. However, […]

One of the great things about this project has been working with our teachers, principals and students from across our four Bream Bay Kahui Ako schools. We had an article done by the Northern Advocate which was published today. Full article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/pest-management-project-brings-together-bream-bay-kura/EGV6NBZIJVDPNNJ5WMIY6CAKI4/