Trapping & Conservation
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Trapping Lines - Sealy Tarns & Ridge, Sefton Biv and Upper Hooker Valley
At the start of 2021, the club was invited to adopt a series of trapping line in Mount Cook Village as part of the Predator Free 2050 Stoat Project.
Our involvement has varied over the years, with the Club Trapping Team currently servicing four lines on a monthly basis, with club involvement being coordinated with DOC and the Te Manahuna Project by Hamish Reid.
We are invite all members to get involved on your next trip down to Mount Cook.if you’d like to help, please contact Hamish at [email protected].
What’s involved
Our four lines need to be checked once a month. We will send you all the details and provide all the tools you will need.
Ideally an ongoing commitment to be part of the team, and join our roster, be that once a month or once a year, it all helps.
We will give you a brief induction on trap setting, health and safety and the function of the TrapNZ.app. We usually coordinate this with your first trapping visit. All the traps are GPS located, and are fairly easy to find.
It usually takes a full day to cover all the traps, but we mostly split it over two.
If you think this might be for you, contact Hamish at [email protected]
Possum Control
CMC members banding and lead testing a fledgling kea at Caroline Hut
Cam Mulvey servicing traps on Sebastopol
Stoat caught in a Doc 150 on the Sealy Ridge line, near Mueller Hut
