Hedgehog number are too high

Sorry hedgehog lovers but their numbers are getting just too high. We are not looking at exterminating them just reducing their numbers. In the last tracking tunnel monitoring, twelve of the thirty nine tracking tunnels showed the presence of hedgehogs. We have purchased three DOC 150 traps which we will move around the gully system. These traps give a good instant kill and are registered as humane. Hedgehogs are particularly damaging in coastal regions where there are a high number of ground nesting birds like dotterels, terns, oyster catchers etc. Because we don’t have the ground nesting birds to the same extent they are not quite as damaging in our gully, but they still forage for our ground fauna like weta and copper skinks.