Dunedin City is home to several incredibly diverse reserves – by becoming a parks and reserve trapper, you’ll experience these precious areas first hand!  It will take a whole of community approach to achieve a predator free Dunedin. By providing communities with the training, technical support and tools to adopt a reserve, we aim to empower local residents […]

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. If you live outside these areas, find your local backyard trapping or reserve group or volunteer. Already doing predator […]

City Sanctuary is supporting residents of Māori Hill to protect native wildlife through backyard predator control. Photo by Craig McKenzie Backyard trapping  Māori Hill is one of City Sanctuary’s three pilot suburbs where we’re supporting residents to get involved in backyard trapping. Along with North Dunedin and Caversham, trapping in Māori Hill is helping us […]

With a background in habitat restoration, Catherine has years of experience creating healthier native habitat for our taonga/treasured wildlife to thrive. Catherine joins the team from Dunedin City Council and the Department of Conservation where she worked as the volunteer project facilitator, supporting community groups to grow their conservation efforts, develop new volunteering opportunities, and […]

Maori Hill is one of three pilot suburbs where we will be trialling the best ways to engage, support and collaborate with communities to help achieve city-wide predator control. The Farrar whānau took home the first Goodnature A24 trap for Maori Hill! This includes testing the effectiveness of two different rats traps. This includes Goodnature […]

This is an important time of year to do predator control. It is the breeding season for native birds and many will be sitting on nests. Bird eggs and chicks are also vulnerable. Across New Zealand, more than 25 million native birds, eggs, and chicks are eaten by introduced predators every year. Trapping also helps […]

By Meg DavidsonThis article was originally featured in the Valley Voice (September 2020). RIP Stumpy. Sorry, but your nightly feasts on my kōwhai, silverbeet and cabbage seedlings had to stop. If we hadn’t got an infrared camera, you and your friends probably would have chomped through my entire vege garden by now and would be […]

City Sanctuary is delivering free rat traps to people living in Maori Hill.  Summer is a great time to trap rats. Native birds like tūī, bellbirds and kererū will be raising their young, making them vulnerable to predation. You can help reduce the number of rats in Maori Hill by hosting a trap. Together, we can […]

We’re actively supporting communities in Māori Hill, North Dunedin and Caversham to get residents trapping in their backyards. 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. Funding and support is available for residents and community groups to […]

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 […]

Our vision is to create a vibrant City Sanctuary where wildlife and communities can thrive, by empowering communities to protect native biodiversity through sustained predator control in backyards and public reserves across Dunedin city.

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 […]