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The Rat Race: A Persistent Threat to Hawaii’s Ecosystem

Tracking tunnel and tracking cards

Black Trakka tracking tunnels, such as the Black Trakka, provide crucial monitoring data to enhance traditional rodent control methods like trapping and poisoning in Hawaii. These tunnels help optimise control efforts while minimising impact on non-target species, making them an essential tool in protecting Hawaii’s unique ecosystems.

Targeting An Individual Mustelid

Stoat on a rock

Stoat tracks recorded in monitoring tunnels at Karekare Scientist Peter King has had several lines of Gotcha Traps monitoring tunnels set out for 9 years as part of a rat control programme in a wider study of the effect of rat numbers on other species. The tunnels are spaced at […]

Stoats under the hen house!

new zealand stoat

There were a pair of brown eyes looking out from under our fowl house. She thought they were those of a mustelid…