We have just completed the 2023 spring rat monitoring. The monitoring is done by using tracking tunnels with an inked card to record footprints and baited with peanut butter as an attractant. These are not traps. We use the DOC standard so that our monitoring is nationally recognised. There was no recorded rat activity. This is a great result, and we are confident that our programme’s objective to eradicate all resident (breeding) rats from the thirty hectare Mangaiti gully system, then control reinvasion to a very low level that prevents rats becoming residents is being achieved.
The last two Monitoring results were:
Autumn 2023, 18 Hedgehogs and 6 mice. No rats
Spring 2023, 12 Hedgehogs and 2 mice. No rats
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