Traps & the Fulton Hogan team
Thanks Fulton Hogan!
One of the most recent additions to the Mangawhai Community Park is the instillation of Predator control aimed at protecting and enhancing our native wildlife.
Fulton Hogan, the contractors constructing the Mangawhai Shared Path, recently sponsored 22 DOC200 traps, which will help control stoats, weasels, rats and hedgehogs, all of which pose a serious risk to our native wildlife. The traps are housed within secure wooden boxes, ensuring they are safe to have around other park users including children and dogs and will be monitored by the Mangawhai Focus very own Mel Tito as a conservation volunteer!
The parks traps become part of the rapidly expanding Mangawhai Predator Control Zone, a community wide project aimed at reducing introduced predators so that our native biodiversity can flourish.
Mangawhai plays host to a surprising array of New Zealand’s rare native species, from Kiwi in the forests, to fairy tern on the coast and bittern in our wetlands. In fact there are over 60 threatened or At-Risk species within our community!
