Greater Wellington Regional Council

• • Roadkill and official information release shows growing mustelid pest problem for region

    • 3 Apr 2024
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
    • In bad news for birdlife, roadkill and trappings have shown that Transmission Gully is a mustelid highway - with stoats, ferrets and weasels among the animals using it to get around. An official information release from Waka Kotahi NZ Transport agency shows 226 pests were trapped between November 2022 and January 2024, with rats, stoats, weasels, hedgehogs, mice, ferrets, possums, and rabbits all making the list. Chair of Greater Wellington, Daran Ponter, says that the news is worrying for conservation efforts like Capital Kiwi and Predator Free Wellington and that current central government budgets are wholly inadequate.
    • Accepted from GW news 2022 7 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • conservation
    • transmission-gully

    Transmission Gully Motorway, Kenepuru, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

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• conservation - Hand tagged by tonytw1
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• government - Publisher tag
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• Transmission Gully Motorway, Kenepuru, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand - Transmission Gully tag geocode

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