Students from Mercury Bay Area School helped carry in rat and stoat traps for the Coromandel Coastal Walkways conservation group. The boxes were made by Terry Whitehouse, a Moehau Environment Group volunteer.
Last Wednesday the sun came out for the bunch of Year 11 and 12 students, who got to spend a morning outdoors carting in trap boxes, and experiencing conservation firsthand. Our Coordinator, Natalie Collicott, went along to deliver the traps and help lend a hand.
The boxes will extend a network of rat, stoat and possum traps around the Rings Beach wetland, serviced by a dedicated bunch of local volunteers. The trapping is one part of a plan to retore the wetland, with the group also undertaking weed control, tree planting & species monitoring in the project.
If you would like to be involved with this project, contact Bruce Smith on 07 866 4742.