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Trapping Guides

  • feral cat in pestgard trap
    June 30, 2025 Phoebe Johnson

    Why Feral Cats Should Be Classified as Pests in New Zealand

    Feral cats are among the most destructive predators to New Zealand’s native species.

    Feral cats (Felis catus) are not domestic pets. They are wild, unowned and prolific hunters - a silent but deadly threat.

    Here’s why they must be officially classified as pests to protect biodiversity and ecosystem health.

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  • Conservation Week 2024
    September 2, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    Conservation Week 2024

    It's the start of spring, and this week is conservation week.

    Located on the West Coast we’re surrounded by New Zealand’s unique, wild beauty and one of our core values is “care for the environment”

    Conservation week is a great reminder to get out there and “take action for nature” which is this years theme.

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  • High success rates with live traps
    May 2, 2019 Maintrac Group

    High success rates with live traps

    Customers are reporting high success rates with live capture traps, with some reporting capture rates at least 10 times greater than kill traps and other trapping methods. Grant Ryan, from The Cacophony Project, conducted a trial over a 4 week...

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  • More predators in 2019?
    April 16, 2019 Maintrac Group

    More predators in 2019?

    A long warm summer, leading to high seeding in New Zealand forests and a population explosion of rats, stoats and other predators; that's the Department of Conservation's prediction for this year. The Mega-Mast Is the term given to this years high seeding....

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