Mustelid trap catch 2008-2009
Numbers are down this year (67 stoats, 5 weasels, 5 ferrets). Again the majority are around the periphery of the forest, as the golf course is an internal open space (with a thriving population of rabbits to attract mustelids).
For the first time there were no mustelids in the central lower Andersons Track area, but unfortunately a cluster of five can be seen in another internal area nearby ie the lower part of the Upper Kauri track. The importance of multiple traps is clear, if animals that travel so fast and so far are to be adjacent to a trap when they pause.