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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 […]

It has a long-life lure pouch that attracts predators into the trap. The trap mechanism fires when triggered. It is powered by a CO2 canister and will reset itself 24 times. The carcass drops to the ground where it can be scavenged. The Goodnature A24 also comes with a bluetooth attachment called Chirp. This syncs […]

Written by Catherine Bradley, City Sanctuary operations supervisor Left: Holding a kākāpo chick during a health check up. Right: Selfie on a rare sunny day on the island! Over the Easter break I was lucky enough to head down to Anchor Island/Pukenui with my husband for a pretty exciting volunteer opportunity. Nestled in Fiordland’s Dusky Sound, […]

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 […]

It can be easily set by hand (or foot) and has a removable bait cup that allows you to re-bait without the trap being set. It is contained within a trap box which helps keep pets, children and non-target animals (like birds) safe. Where to put your trap Start where you have seen rats or […]

Even if you haven’t seen any rats under your trap, Chirp counts how many you’ve killed and shares this data with the Goodnature app on your mobile phone. This is shared with City Sanctuary, allowing us to keep track of collective efforts to protect native wildlife in Dunedin. Chirp also lets you know how many strikes […]

The City Sanctuary project is targeting rats, possums and stoats as these are the species included in the Predator Free 2050 strategy. We expect other pest species (like mice, weasels and hedgehogs) will also be caught.

More than 100 kids from around Dunedin recently took part in a trap building workshop at Mitre 10 as part of the NZ International Science Festival. The young trappers hammered together wooden boxes to house traps for their gardens. Each child received either a Victor or T-Rex snap-trap to put in the box for trapping […]

City Sanctuary is providing free rat and possum traps for residents in Maori Hill.  Let us know a time that works for someone from the City Sanctuary team to visit your home and install a trap in your backyard during December. We’ll help you find the best place to put your trap, install it for […]

Members of the Aquinas sustainability club got in touch after seeing and hearing possums in the bush around their hall.  A well-fed possum in the bush surrounding Aquinas College captured on camera by student Oscar Thomas. The group put out chew cards to see what predators were around. These are filled with a non-toxic lure […]

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 […]

For example, mice will nibble one side while rats will chomp through the whole thing. If you have put a chew card out to see what predators are visiting your backyard, it’s time for some detective work! No bite marks? If nothing nibbled your card, just take it down and move it somewhere else. Remember, you’ll […]

If you live in the wider Lindsay Creek catchment (Opoho, North East Valley, Dalmore, Pine Hill, Liberton and Normanby) visit Open Valley Urban Ecosanctuary’s pop up trap library! Come along to the Valley Project Community Rooms every second Saturday (12th and 26th September) from 2pm to 4pm. The team will have monitoring devices (tracking tunnels, […]

28 February 2022 “We could hear them at night racketing around in the garden and they were having a go at some plants.” “Once when my grandkids were over from Australia they left some plums out on the table and the next morning the possums had taken them!” Roger says there has been an increase […]