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Pūkaha Mt Bruce Wildlife Centre
has received 500 new self-setting traps thanks to funding from Pub Charity and
a partnership with trap manufacturer Goodnature. Staff are excited at the
possibilities, with traps installed previously having already made a marked
difference.
Cutting edge trap technology
is boosting birdsong and helping efforts to restore the New Zealand
bush to its former glory.
Conservationists hope to restore fauna
to levels which prompted botanist Joseph Banks to write in
1769 that the New Zealand bush had "certainly the most melodious wild
musick I have ever heard". This technology could well bring the dream
closer.
Pūkaha Mt Bruce National Wildlife
Centre conservation manager Todd Jenkinson said the addition of 500
A-24 Goodnature self-setting predator traps at the centre, north of
Masterton, would go a long way to increasing the birdsong at the centre and
surrounding areas.
The centre already had
160 A-24 traps throughout the 942-hectare reserve and 2000 hectare
buffer zone and he had noticed the difference they had provided in the
number of birds that could be seen and heard.
"There has been a noticeable
increase in rifleman, whitehead, grey warbler, shining cuckoo and long
tailed cuckoo since we have had the A-24 traps on the reserve.
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