Pest Control in Tawa Reserves -update 2025

In 2023 the following trap lines were added to our network, This has resulted in a four-fold increase to our catches in 2024 For comparison in 2022, prior to these trap lines being installed we caught a total of 273 pest animals (rats, mice and hedgehogs), this more than doubled in 2023 to 626, whileContinue reading “Pest Control in Tawa Reserves -update 2025”

Working bee Update – Tawa Station Park‘n’Ride restoration area

One of the projects that Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves has been involved over the past couple years is an area adjacent to the Porirua Stream and besides the Tawa rail station “park‘n’ride”  area off Melville Street.   For many years this area has appeared as a bit of a wasteland overgrown with blackberry andContinue reading “Working bee Update – Tawa Station Park‘n’Ride restoration area”