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 […]

Keeping pets safe around traps is important and something we consider at all times. Rat and stoat traps are kept inside a wooden box or tunnel. These have a small entrance that allow predators to get in but keep pets out. They also have a wire mesh barrier to stop cats reaching bait with their […]

The suburb of Maori Hill was defined using boundaries from the 2018 census. We have expanded this slightly to include any houses along State Highway 1 and along the Otago Golf Course.  This area includes 102 hectares and 1,116 households.  If you live slightly outside this area, please come along to a trap library session […]

We are supporting communities to do predator control in the following priority reserves: Botanic Garden Braeview Crescent Reserve Chingford Park Craigieburn Reserve Dalmore Reserve Prospect Bank Ross Creek Reserve Signal Hill Reserve Town Belt Woodhaugh Garden If you are part of a local community group that is keen to get involved at one of these […]

Community health and wellbeing, lifestyle and economy are all dependent on a healthy natural environment, and it is this underlying principle that drives the Halo Project’s objectives to enhance our natural environment. We aim to inspire and work with our communities to enhance, protect and connect with this landscape. We do this across four distinct […]

6 October 2021 Woodhaugh Gardens has a rich history as one of Dunedin’s oldest parks and is home to many treasured birds and plants. 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 […]

Protecting native wildlife through backyard trapping will be a crucial part of achieving a Predator Free Dunedin.  City Sanctuary is supporting communities in priority suburbs across Dunedin to set up traps in their backyards. We’re actively supporting communities in Māori Hill, North Dunedin and Caversham to get residents trapping in their backyards. These pilot suburbs […]

Introduced predators like rats, possums and stoats are a major problem for New Zealand’s plants and animals. For millions of years, our native wildlife evolved without the threat of ground-based mammal predators. This means they are vulnerable to predation and unable to defend themselves. Since people and predators arrived on our shores, dozens of species […]

The streets of North Dunedin are no longer safe for rats and possums. Less ratties in flatties North Dunedin is one of City Sanctuary’s predator free suburbs. Flats are backyard trapping to help protect native wildlife and provide a line of defence connecting trap networks in the Town Belt, Woodhaugh Gardens and the Botanic Garden.  […]

Our project area includes 8,349 hectares extending from North East Valley to South Dunedin, along to Brighton and up to Chain Hills. This includes: Three pilot suburbs (Caversham, Maori Hill and North Dunedin). Ten priority suburbs (Balmacewen, Dalmore, Glenleith, Helensburgh, Liberton, North East Valley, Normanby, Opoho, Pine Hill and Woodhaugh). Ten priority reserves (Botanic Garden, […]

We use a range of traps depending on the pest species being targeted and the location. The full list of traps we use and the species being targeted includes: BT 200 traps (mustelids including stoats, ferrets and weasels) Goodnature A24 self-resetting traps (rats, stoats) T-rex traps (rats) Trapinators (possums) Victors (rats) All traps meet National Animal […]

11 November 2021 The latest urban predator control equipment is now easily accessible to the public through a new ‘‘trap shop’’at the Dunedin iSite and Department of Conservation Visitor Centre in the Octagon. Operating under the umbrella of City Sanctuary, the trap shop offers information, traps, predator chew cards, and other equipment for dealing mainly […]

Maurice- Pine Hill Over the last few months the City Sanctuary trap catch records have had days of frantic action, we wanted to find out who was behind this backyard catch bonanza and what their secrets were to their successful trap catches! It turned out many of these catch reports were coming from one backyard! Was this a […]

We don’t currently have traps for sale but are developing a guide to backyard trapping that will include information about what traps to use and where to buy them. Check whether your local community group has traps to buy or borrow.