Communities, Kaitiakitanga, Conservation | Urban Pest Control
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Each year we survey areas around Whangārei to find out more about the pest mammal populations in our city. This is crucial for the work we do to make sure we are on track to achieving our objective of More
Over lockdown 2.0, we talked with Mark Garry, owner of Pacific Coast Kayaking about his passion to help Onerahi become predator free. He got involved in the Tiakina Whangārei Predator Free Onerahi More
Claire Pearson and her husband Mark have been the owner-operators of Bream Head Coast Walks since its inception in 2008. “We offer two or three-day packages that include walking, accommodation, More
Lewis Foulkes knows that predators damage our New Zealand bush and wildlife. Our city’s areas of bush can only benefit from becoming predator free! This is a goal that will allow our native bush, More
The Whangārei Men’s Shed has been hard at work making custom-built rat trap boxes for Tiakina Whangārei for the past two years and has now started selling Rat Trap Starter Packs from their central More
Trish Clarke is a local artist, sculptor, and designer. She was one of the three project leaders for the Camera Obscura in Whangārei, an 8m weathering steel sculpture within which is a Camera More
Thanks to the efforts of many passionate locals over the last few months, the Predator Free Onerahi project is going from strength to strength, with over 160 traps now recorded within the Onerahi More
Living surrounded by the beautiful native bush on Parihaka, Vicki Hollings has a passion for protecting the native birds in her backyard. Vicki and her husband, Trevor, have been members of the More
Plans to build predator defences around Onerahi are ramping up following the latest steering group meeting for Predator Free Onerahi. Tiakina Whangārei identified Onerahi as an ideal location to More
So just how big is the rat population in central Whangārei? When you start talking about issues like flourishing rat populations and native birds being threatened by possums in our central city, it More
Performing predator surveys is crucial for Tiakina Whangārei and our mission to create a predator-free Whangārei. We first need to understand the problem and to do this we conduct thorough surveys More
While our priority is protecting and enhancing Whangārei’s native biodiversity, there are lots of other exciting conservation projects happening around New Zealand that are encouraging kaitiakitanga More
