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We are almost there with a new Anawhenua trapline

16 July 2023 by Julia Leave a Comment

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

The SOKK project trapline markers

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.

David with ‘Stanley’

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 superkiller AT220

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.

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The Environment, Conservation and Outdoor Education Trust (ECOED) was established in 2002 to halt the decline of North Island brown kiwi in the Kaweka Forest Park. At that time, the estimated kiwi population was about 200. In response to the crisis, ECOED initiated the Save the Kiwi Hawke’s Bay Project, which is now known as Save Our Kaweka Kiwi, or SOKK.

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