The MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop are busy crafting over one hundred pest traps for deployment around the Upper Clutha. Each is built from recycled materials except for the mechanism which is a new and of a Department of Conservation design.
Production runs of this size enable the whole team to work shoulder to shoulder on a single project. Great for strengthening community among members of the team.
Next month the traps will be available for deployment targeting pests such a stoats.
The traps will be placed and checked by volunteers drawn from across the Upper Clutha. Apart from enhancing our natural environment the volunteers who carry out this work are illustrative of the power of community.
We are proud to be part of it.