The MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop have recently completed a prototype shelter for skinks and lizards.
The project follows attendance by members of the team of a form focused upon how each of us could support New Zealand’s native skinks and lizards. Discussion highlighted the role of cats predating skinks and lizards which were especially vulnerable because their communities often occupy very small geographic areas.
By providing shelters to which skinks and lizards could retreat to when threatened the team aims to improve the survivability of skink and lizard populations.
Our prototype build from corrigated iron is now being tested in Wanaka. If it proves worthwhile we shall try more!