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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2019
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Heroes of Holdsworth Team of volunteers working to protect our native birds Emily Ireland It was a brisk 3 degrees last Thursday morning as about a dozen volunteers gathered at the Mount Holdsworth car park. Their job was to check the hundreds of traps in the Donnelly Flat area of the forest park to help improve native birdlife. “Yup, we’ve caught a big fat possum,” someone called over the radio. “Does the possum need to give permission for a photo for the paper?” another person said. “I don’t think he’ll object.” The possum was one of 22 predators found in the traps that day: all up there was a possum, eight rats, and 13 mice. It was slim pickings compared to other times
the traps are checked, volunteers said – and probably one of the worst days they’ve been out all year. But a bad day of trapping is the very best result for the Holdsworth Restoration Trust volunteers who have been working since 2010 to reduce pests and increase bird numbers in the area under the guise of Project Kaka. The project is named after the iconic native parrot the kaka, plentiful on nearby Kapiti Island and at Pukaha Mount Bruce, and is representative of the many species that are expected to become more abundant as a result of the project. Continued on page 4 Holdsworth Restoration Trust volunteers. Trust chair Nigel Boniface is wearing a hi-vis jacket. PHOTO/EMILY IRELAND
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