Urban Pest Control Workshop hosted by Tu Taiao Tairāwhiti
Sun, 09 Jul
|Kaiti Yacht Club
How to contribute to the country’s biodiversity crisis - Starting in your own backyard
Time & Location
09 Jul 2023, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Kaiti Yacht Club, Kaiti Beach Road, Inner Kaiti, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
This project helps towards the bigger picture of making Aotearoa predator-free by 2050 to protect our native species from extinction. That initiative is led by the Department of Conservation because NZ is in a biodiversity crisis with the highest rate of threatened indigenous species in the world.
Tu Taiao Tairāwhiti's idea was created by the joined forces of two iwi-led kaitiaki groups Whaia Tītīrangi and Mahaki Mahinga Kai.
The focus of this project is on the area located around maunga Tītīrangi/Kaiti hill.
If you live in the area, come along this Sunday, bring the family, and learn how to become predator-free and get a free rat trap to take away – these traps are rated as very humane.
Everyone at the workshop will be shown how to safely use the trap, with the understanding that when a rat is caught – it’s recorded. That information becomes part of a national…