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I've been using cahe traps about the place and once aged a bit they catch rsts well with peanut butter bait. I usually smear a very thin trail into the cage as well, as enticement. I have also...

Set them loose bro ! Just train em not to eat carrots.

Cougars could be interesting :)

Amusing ay. I can recall DoC and AHB Assurring the ERMA review of 1080 (2007) that frequency would ot need to exceed once in 7 years. They spun it big time.

I dont know the Karamea bend so cant comment on that specific. Looking back over my 60 years as an adult I see patterns of historical devolution of wild animal control and the factors influencing...

Agreed. However the pest problem costs are not directly linked to any market. The heli shooting of deer was never subsidised by govt either and if this were the generally case today I have no doubt...

Take $65 per ha off the aerial poison indistry and offer it to ground based and see what happens. Money talks. E.g. The deer wars. Enterprising businesses and people might surprise the currrent...

200 ha per 10km line = $13,000+ . @ $65+.
Plenty of leeway and time. Go figure. Kill rat another comes along. Put 10 rat traps around each position etc. It's called initiative..

Been thru all this in past threads and not going to write it all over again. In very simple terms for you each trap position will cater for 2 ha. A 100 position grid line will cover 200 ha over a...

One operation. Includes rc ad.in poison aircraft and manpower. The AHB audit reported $57 per ha way back in 2012 and up to $85 in remote areas.

The actual costs averave over $60 per hectare. If they offered that for gridded trapping the ques for the career would be very long; and they know it. The cost would be paid out per three to four...

It really is unfortunate that that Nth Urewera project which concentrated on permanent trap lines and pest species specific trapping to be very successful without using aerial poisons has been...

They drop lots of poison on masting afeas ay--

In other words aerially poisoning enhances rats food supply. Very clever eh. (Then they breed to higher numbers than pre poison drop ay :)

Not sure if this website still rxists but try googleing rat irruptions. Or www.1080science.co.nz

Rat populations get a partial knockback after 1080 poison drops but then breed rapidly to far exceed the original population within 18 months. The phenomenon known as rat irruptions.

Benifits would be greater using trapping.

My studied opinion is that had the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by DoC, AHB and regional councils on 1080 poison operations been invested EXPERTLY on ground based trapping ong with timely...