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Phase 4 and the future
14 June, 2017
In June 2017, we completed Phase Four of the Canopy Conservation Project. We now have 220 hectares of the forest under trapping control, meaning that the entire forest of Rotorua Canopy Tours is protected. During this final phase we also re-baited and re-gassed the entire existing network of traps from…
Read morePhase 3 – The Results
15 October, 2016
Ever since Rotorua Canopy Tours first began, our intention was to restore the Dansey Road Scenic Reserve and put conservation at the very heart of our eco-tourism business. Over the past four years we’ve steadily increased our pest eradication programme and in October 2016, we embarked on Phase 3. A…
Read moreInspiring the next generation of conservationists
18 September, 2016
You’re never too young to appreciate the beauty of our amazing native birds. But unfortunately, today’s school children may be the last generation in New Zealand to ever see kiwi living in the wild. The destruction in our forests – and even in our own back yards – is immense,…
Read moreConservation Week Trapping Workshop
15 September, 2016
A lot of us know that possums, rats, stoats and cats spell disaster for our native birds. But many people are shocked to learn the scale of the problem – 26 million native birds are killed in New Zealand every year by these introduced predators! Trapping is one of the…
Read morePhase 3: Our Plans This Winter
27 May, 2016
This winter we will begin Phase 3 of trapping which will further extend our protected area to the western end of the Dansey Road Scenic Reserve, leaving only the eastern (Rotorua) section of the forest left to trap. To implement this trapping phase, six staff members will spend around 80…
Read morePhase 2: The Results
27 November, 2015
In late November 2015 (a month after our Phase 2 trapping programme began), we did a post-monitoring survey to see how successful we had been. This involved placing chew cards (small squares of plastic corflute spread with peanut butter), out into the forest every 50m along our monitoring lines. When…
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