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”
Category Archives: Possums
What We’ve Been Up To
Friends of the Blade operates under the korowai of Whakamārama Community Incorporated, and every year we write up a report for their AGM of what we’ve been up to: AT220 Autotrap Perimeter Completed 2023-24 As of April 2023, this was the status of our effort to ring fence our trapping area with AT220 auto trapsContinue reading “What We’ve Been Up To”
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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