Pest-Free Pinehaven: the birds need YOU!
Would you like to help out in the effort to make Pinehaven pest free? If so, then join Pest-Free Pinehaven. We have rat tunnels with traps available for a donation of up to $20. We’ll show you the ins and outs of setting your trap and how to register it in our online database. If you already have a trap then you can still join by registering your trap with us and contributing your catch data.
We also provide advice on trapping other pests like possums and stoats, and are working on a trap library for these more expensive traps.
We currently have 65 traps in our network. We need your help to reach our current 200 trap goal. Let’s together make Pinehaven pest free, helping make New Zealand predator free by 2050.
So email pestfree.pinehaven@gmail.com to get trapping!
Pest-Free Pinehaven is part of Pest-Free Upper Hutt, a community group of volunteers with an interest in eradicating rats, stoats, weasels, ferrets and possums from our parks, reserves, backyards and waterways with the aim of restoring birdlife and native bush. Please note that cats are not targeted.
Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”
We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?
Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.
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41.8% Yes
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33.4% Maybe?
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24.8% No
Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
Neighbourhood Challenge: Who Can Crack This One? ⛓️💥❔
What has a head but no brain?
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