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Wow, this sounds interesting!There's another very interesting Cafe Sci Katikati coming up. John Innes is the man who famously got the video evidence of possums eating kōkako eggs for the first time. At that stage, there was not widespread acceptance that possums routinely ate the birds’ eggs and chicks.![]()
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He has a career's worth of research on pest mammal behaviour - and what does and doesn't work to control them.
We are so excited for back to school! We have a busy term coming up with lots of schools visits and camps. We would love to have your help at a working bee this Saturday morning from 9am to help get our amazing education centre ready for action. Sat 4th Feb, 9am, 1913 Manawahe Rd, we hope to see you there!
We are really excited to feature in the Summer issue of Forest and Bird magazine with a great article written by Peter Fergusson on the wallaby control he has been leading in Manawahe. You can check it out here!
December 2022 Update – Manawahe Eco Trust
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09/12/2022 Manawahe Eco Trust 0 We are really excited to feature in the Summer issue of Forest and Bird magazine with a great article written by Peter Fergusson on the wallaby control he has been lead...
We are so stoked to have a brand new shade sail installed just in time for summer at the Manawahe Ecological Community Centre! A massive thanks to the team at Shade & Style for their amazing job setting it up and to our awesome funders at Pub Charity Limited. Bring on the sunshine 😎
We are super excited to have a new Environmental Educator on our team! Phoebe Carr is a former secondary school teacher who has recently returned to Whakatane after teaching overseas for several years. She is excited to facilitate an inclusive, creative, and fun space for school groups and other communities to be in nature, understand the threats to the taiao, and work together for the benefit of our native rakau, manu, and other taonga species in Manawahe and beyond.
We had a great visit from the preschoolers at Little Moments Limited, what a great age to start learning about conservation at our community education centre in Manawahe 💚
We were so lucky to have the awesome William Pike leadership team from Whakatane Intermediate School help us out with tree planting this week! Their amazing mahi got another 200 native plants in the ground, just in time for some rainy weather 👍
As weka start to make themselves at home in Manawahe here are some things to consider around your home and garden. Weka can become a nuisance if you encourage them to take or find food near houses. They can also become a nuisance in some gardening situations as they are attracted to newly disturbed soil. It pays to do the digging first and then plant a day or two later to prevent your plants being disturbed.![]()
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In droughts, place water away from the house and open your organic compost area to the weka. If you need to control rats use weka-safe baits (Coumatetralyl, Racumin®) or protected traps.![]()
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Do not use second generation anticoagulant baits (Brodifacoum, Talon®, Pestoff®, Flocoumafen, Storm®, Bromadiolone) even in houses as the rats do not die there and can be accessible to weka.![]()
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If you are concerned about weka feeding on newly sown crops or other disturbances, report the problem to DOC.
Weka are starting to move into Manawahe, with this one spotted recently on a local farm. Did you know these feisty birds are more at risk than North Island brown kiwi? Once widespread across the whole North Island, the Eastern BOP is home to the last natural population of NI weka. Although these birds can have a bad reputation due to their curious nature, we are actually really lucky to have them on our doorstep!
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