Why we trap
New Zealand is home to many rare and unique species that have evolved over millenia in a landscape completely free of mammalian predators.
This all changed with the arrival of humans, who brought with them rats, mice, possums, weasels, stoats, ferrets, hedgehogs and cats, all of which have decimated native wildlife populations. At least 16 bird species have gone extinct in New Zealand since 1800. We trap in order to save our existing native wildlife.
“Stoats are implicated in the extinction of the South Island subspecies of bush wren, laughing owl and New Zealand thrush.”