Unusual visitors and unwanted predators

 Kiwicoast Visitors

On the 16th of August, two people from the Kiwicoast named Andy mentor and Lesley Baigent came to Kaikohe Christian School to talk to us about New Zealand’s mustelid problems and how to prevent them from eating away forests and our native birds’ habitats. Mustelids were introduced to New Zealand to stop the growing rabbit population now their population has escalated worse than the rabbits ever have and will. Possums are a huge predator and contributor to the endangerment of New Zealand’s native animals.

They left us with two rat traps called alligator traps. We have not yet decided where to put them.

By Taylah