Huka Trapping Update - December 2022

Written By Kim Manunui

Huka Trapping started predator control on the Huka Trails along the river (Spa Park to Aratiatia) in June 2018. Later at the end of 2020, Bike Taupo modified the concession with LINZ to allow pest control in Craters Mountain Bike Park.

We now have about 50 volunteers managing 450 traps and the total tally of pests killed has just passed 7,000. In the last 12 months this includes 1650 rats, 670 possums and 44 stoats and weasels.

An innovation for us is the use of trail cameras and tracking tunnels to get a better idea of the problems to be solved. Feral cats are identified as an ongoing difficult problem.

You will probably see our volunteers out checking traps in their yellow vests with “Predator Control” on the back. Please do not handle the traps.

Use this link if you wish to help with a donation. If you wish to know more email clyff@biketaupo.org.nz or join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hukatrapping

We believe we are making a difference. Keep an eye out for the special, less common, birds on the tracks.

Kereru on Redwoods track

Whiteheads at Aratiatia

Tomtit on Beagle Boys

North Island Robin at Huka Falls

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

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