At the end of June this year, 2026, the amazing Debra Jager handed over the running of Whakamārama Pest Trap Library, which she set up in 2019, to Friends of the Blade. We’re honoured to take on the role, which complements our own work so well, and hope we live up to the example DebContinue reading “Whakamārama Pest Trap Library: A Woman With a Mission”
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An Evening With a Trapping Guru
An enthusiastic crowd of trappers gathered at the Tauranga Yacht Club in the first week of October for a talk by predator control guru John Bissell of Backblocks Environmental Management, whose creative thinking and commitment to predator control never fails to inspire. There was something for every kind of predator control project in Bissell’s talk,Continue reading “An Evening With a Trapping Guru”
Innovations at the Blade
Readers of our newsletter (click here to subscribe) may recall from previous issues that since October of this year, volunteer Stu M has been trialing the use of canola cooking spray to keep his rat and possum traps free of rust and working smoothly. Stu reports the trial is over and he considers it aContinue reading “Innovations at the Blade”
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