Trapping has proved successful and mustelid control operations are ongoing across all three of our properties.

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We believe broad-scale, effective mustelid control is the next big issue for mainland conservation in New Zealand. A lot of money has been spent fairly recently on finding ways to deal effectively with these pests so there are quite a few trap designs and killing solutions in use at the moment.

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Most are still fairly labour intensive, however, and few are as reliable and effective as conservationists would like them to be.