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February 20, 2025

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February 20, 2025

News — City Sanctuary

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February 20, 2025

News — City Sanctuary

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One of our backyard trappers recently had a hungry thief visit her veggie garden.

The Town Belt Bird Count is a trail of 10 signs threaded along the city green belt where you can help count birds.

Our very own Catherine recently spent two weeks working with one of Aotearoa’s most fascinating native birds

Our monthly operational newsletter The City Sanctuary Dispatch aims to keep you up-to-date about project developments, provide seasonal trapping advice, and share stories from local trappers.

Read City Sanctuary’s new monthly operational newsletter The City Sanctuary Dispatch.

We’ve recently finished seasonal predator monitoring in the parks and reserves where we’re trapping.

Roger lives up in Māori Hill and has been trapping possums in his backyard for the past two years.

Ian shares how his neighbourhood is working together to create an urban sanctuary for native wildlife to flourish.

What are Dunedin’s birds doing over the summer? Mary Thompson shares some tips for summer bird watching in Otago.

City Sanctuary has a growing team of dedicated volunteers who give their time to help protect native wildlife in our city.

February 20, 2025

News — City Sanctuary

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February 20, 2025

News — City Sanctuary

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February 20, 2025

News — City Sanctuary

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Predator Free Dunedin works towards removing the last possums from the peninsula.

St Clair trapper and local physio Duncan shares health benefits of trapping.

We’ve crunched the numbers for all our trapping data from Dunedin’s northern suburbs since the project began.

Celebrating our incredible volunteers at Orokonui Ecosanctuary on 9 December 2023.

Students involved with Town Belt Kaitiaki are helping check traps in the Town Belt.

Learn more about two special reserves in North East Valley.

Ken and Elly are part of the crew of volunteer trappers that check traps in Dunedin’s beautiful Ross Creek Reserve.

Marie was one of our first trap line volunteers and last year had the opportunity to meet former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

If we turned the clock back several hundred years, Dunedin/Ōtepoti would have been a very different place.

Our Community Ranger Penny has been dabbling in possum cuisine and shares some tips and recipes for a marsupial meal.

Tips about how to find and protect lizards living in your garden.

What we’ve learned so far about how to do urban predator control in Dunedin City.

Elijah is one of our trappers in the Botanic Garden and shares more about the Rhododendron Dell line.

Jess is one of our trap line volunteers and today shares more about why she volunteers.

Possums come in all shapes, sizes and colours in Dalmore!

What are Dunedin’s birds doing at this time of the year?

Backyard trapper Neville always uses a bit of strawberry jam to lure possums in.

We’ve also removed more than 2000 possums from Dunedin City!

Check out this stoat we recently caught in a Fraser’s Gully trap.