May 2022

City Sanctuary is supporting 1 in 10 households to protect native wildlife by hosting a trap in their backyard. Come along to the Maori Hill community trap library. Get a monitoring kit to see what predators are visiting your backyard, register for a free trap and meet the friendly City Sanctuary team. Please RSVP below […]

The Town Belt is one of City Sanctuary’s priority reserves. The area has a rich natural history as a home for many precious native species. Stretching 4.7km across Mornington, Roslyn, Māori Hill, Woodhaugh and Opoho, the Town Belt provides a green cloak of native and exotic bush that separates the inner city from the outer […]

As one of three pilot suburbs, we’re working with residents in Maori Hill to turn their backyards into a haven for wildlife. These pilot suburbs will allow us to trial and understand the best way to engage, support and collaborate with communities to help achieve city-wide predator control. This includes sending a survey to residents […]

They are filled with a non-toxic hypoallergenic lure that predators will nibble on. Each leaves a unique bite mark, meaning you can figure out what kind of trap is required to protect native wildlife in your backyard (and where to put it). You will need Chew card ingredients Chew cards usually include a paste with […]

CHiRP, the Chain Hills Restoration Project, is a concerted effort by the guardians of this land to improve the health of the forest, providing a habitat for birds and other native wildlife to flourish. We’re working hard to tackle introduced predators that threaten native wildlife and to ensure there is abundant food for bird life. […]

Predator Free Dunedin’s City Sanctuary project is supporting 1 in 10 households in Maori Hill to protect native wildlife through backyard predator control. Drop in to the Maori Hill Community Centre on Wednesdays in September from 4pm – 6pm to register for a trap and to pick up a monitoring kit to see what predators […]

City Sanctuary is supporting 1 in 10 households to protect native wildlife by hosting a trap in their backyard. Come along to the Maori Hill community trap library. Get a monitoring kit to see what predators are visiting your backyard, register for a free trap and meet the friendly City Sanctuary team. Please RSVP below […]

The streets of North Dunedin are no longer safe for predators, with almost 90 student flats now trapping from their backyards. North Dunedin is one of City Sanctuary’s three pilot sites where our aim is to have 1 in 10 households trapping. There are around 860 dwellings in North Dunedin so our goal was to […]

No, we aren’t currently using poisons or toxins for this project. For information about predator control operations in the wider Dunedin area (including active areas), please see Dunedin City Council’s list of current predator control operations.

City Sanctuary is supporting 1 in 10 households to protect native wildlife by hosting a trap in their backyard. Come along to the Maori Hill community trap library. Get a monitoring kit to see what predators are visiting your backyard, register for a free trap and meet the friendly City Sanctuary team. Please RSVP below […]

We’re empowering communities to lead backyard trapping efforts in ten priority suburbs. This includes Balmacewen, Dalmore, Glenleith, Helensburgh, Liberton, North East Valley, Normanby, Opoho, Pine Hill and Woodhaugh.  Monitoring equipment, traps and support are available for new and existing community groups. To find out how you can lead predator control in one of these suburbs, please get […]

Yes! All data submitted through our trap map forms ends up in Trap.NZ as this is required by our funders. If you already have an account on Trap.NZ and would prefer to enter your data directly, please request to join our project.

Minimising the spread of Covid-19 to ensure the well-being of New Zealanders is our top priority. Although the work being carried out by City Sanctuary is important, we will strictly follow the guidelines and regulations being communicated by the Government. Along with Predator Free Dunedin and its delivery partners, we have developed a set of guidelines for how […]

Over the next few years, we’re working in a number of priority suburbs — starting with Maori Hill (July 2020), North Dunedin (February 2021) and Caversham (July 2021). If you live in these areas, register your interest in the form below.  If you live outside these areas, find your local backyard trapping or reserve group or register to become […]