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Bob’s Cove is home to many native species such as the yellow-crowned parakeet and South Island tomtit. It has the closest intact native beech forest to Queenstown, but this special area and its fauna is seriously threatened by introduced mammals such as possums, rats and stoats.
Southern Lakes Sanctuary is a landscape scale conservation project uniting the work of six major partner groups including the Whakatipu Wildlife Trust. We support approximately 100 community groups and their 1,000 volunteers, with a goal to protect our native species across the Queenstown Lakes District.
With the generous support from the Hugo Charitable Trust we have been able to install 18 noded self-resetting traps and 10 noded live capture traps. These nodes allow for “hands free” remote monitoring of the traps (including bait levels and battery levels) at a landscape scale, reducing labour requirements and increasing efficiency, to protect the native birds, lizards and invertebrates of this stunning area.
Thank you sincerely to the Hugo Charitable Trust for your generous support of our conservation efforts. Together we will make Bob’s Cove a safer place for our native wildlife and an even better place for future generations to visit.
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