We are almost there with a new Anawhenua trapline

Deb and David Harrington have been busy lately, working in the field on the Save Our Kaweka Kiwi project.

On 30 June, they completed marking the Anawhenua stream trapline with blue plastic triangles, along with the 22 proposed trap locations with pink plastic triangles. It’s now all ready for the traps to be installed by other volunteers.

Then on 6 July, in pleasant weather Deb and David carried out the third six-weekly health check on the young kiwi ‘Stanley’, in nice beech country above Don’s stream. He’s doing well. In the afternoon, they went out along the Little Matauria Ridge doing maintenance on the four self-setting possum traps, kiwi monitoring and marking out another 18 proposed trap locations which are also now ready for the traps to be installed.

The four self-setting traps (AT220) which were installed just over six months ago have killed 80 possums!

Finally, on 7 July in bitterly cold and very windy conditions, David was back to improve the hunters’ track on North Birch Range to make it easier and safer for carrying in the traps for the Anawhenua trapline. The hunters’ track will also be a trapline in the future.