Are you keen to help bring more native birds and fauna into the Long Bay neighbourhood?
Let’s make Long Bay Predator Free!
Long Bay residents are invited to complete this survey which should take approximately 3-5 minutes. Click the following link:
Restore Hibiscus and Bays have 9 traps deployed in the bush around Long Bay and in 5 months have caught 127 rats and 33 possums!!
We have seen a number of posts on our Long Bay Community Facebook Group and reports from residents about rats and mice invading residents’ properties in their roof, garden or sheds, plus the occasional mention of a possum. We’d like to get rid of predator pests so the local birds, fauna and native bush can restore and grow.
The Long Bay Residents’ Association (LBRA) is working in collaboration with Restore Hibiscus and Bays towards making NZ predator free by 2050. We are hoping to get funding towards a Predator Free Long Bay.
Various organisations and community groups are working closely with residents across many suburbs, streets, parks and rural areas of New Zealand. A prime example is the Miramar Peninsula in Wellington where target pests have been eradicated, and the amazing recovery of natives birds is the result.
We are reaching out to local Long Bay residents to find those willing to host a trap on their property to help keep Long Bay free of predators such as rats, mice, possums and mustelids (stoats, ferrets, weasels). As well as protecting residential areas, this is to put in place a “predator halo” – an area that protects the Long Bay Regional Park such that predators do not get through a given buffer to the park. We are especially interested to connect with properties adjacent to the Regional Park.
To register your interest please complete this survey so we record and communicate with you as appropriate.
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