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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 suburbs. In the north, the Town Belt connects directly with mostly native forest in Opoho Creek and Ross Creek, and to larger expanses of forest […]

When Kate moved across the harbour to The Halo Project which is based in Port Chalmers, Kim and I, while still giving a day a week to OPBG, decided to also help Halo. After concentrating on possums with OPBG, it was quite a learning experience to move on to rats and mustelids (stoats, weasels and […]

Since I was a little girl, the wilderness has always been my happy place, my play destination, and my spiritual centre. I loved hiking, biking, and exploring in nature, thanks to my forested home in Pennsylvania with bears, bobcat, bluejays, cardinals, native honeysuckle and rhododendron. I also give credit to my grandfather who showed me how to press native wildflowers from the tundra […]

Located within the Town Belt and coursed by the Water of the Leith, the park dates back to the 1890s. The suburb of Woodhaugh played an important role in Dunedin’s industrial development from the mid-1800s. In the early days, the Leith river was used by sawmills, flour mills and, notably, New Zealand’s second largest paper […]

It’s a been a wild ride – we’ve gate-crashed a Hyde Street party, installed traps in bedrooms, nailed chew cards on couches, crunched through glass and broken furniture, and seen some sights which aren’t suitable for publication! We’ll be supporting students for the rest of the year and offering help with trapping. We’ll also do […]

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One of our backyard trappers recently had a hungry thief visit her veggie garden. Read More The Town Belt Bird Count is a trail of 10 signs threaded along the city green belt where you can help count birds. Read More Our very own Catherine recently spent two weeks working with one of Aotearoa’s most […]

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Predator Free Dunedin works towards removing the last possums from the peninsula. Read More St Clair trapper and local physio Duncan shares health benefits of trapping. Read More We’ve crunched the numbers for all our trapping data from Dunedin’s northern suburbs since the project began. Read More Celebrating our incredible volunteers at Orokonui Ecosanctuary on […]

One of our backyard trappers recently had a hungry thief visit her veggie garden. Read More The Town Belt Bird Count is a trail of 10 signs threaded along the city green belt where you can help count birds. Read More Our very own Catherine recently spent two weeks working with one of Aotearoa’s most […]

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