TLC Trap Library Launch
TLC is launching the region’s first Predator Trap Library for local farmers. Head along to the launch featuring Sam The Trap Man: hunter, fisher, conservationist and trapping legend. Get practical tips, hear why trapping works, and catch a short film on restoring native habitat across Aotearoa.
Time & Location
10 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
61 Bridge St, 61 Bridge Street, Ongaonga 4278, New Zealand
About the event
Tukituki Land Care (TLC) is launching Central Hawke’s Bay’s first predator Trap Library for farmers in the 17 Tukituki sub-catchments. With 400 free-to-borrow traps, we’re stamping down on stoats, rats, hedgehogs, possums and feral cats to boost native biodiversity, help our wetlands and bush regenerate and lower the spread of disease affecting our livestock. Find out more at www.tukitukilandcare.org/trap-library.
To kick things off, hunter, fisher, conservationist and trapping legend, Sam “the Trap Man” Gibson is joining us to share why on-farm trapping works. We’ll also screen Think Like a Forest, a powerful short film featuring Sam that spotlights a bold, science-led push to restore, regenerate, enhance, and manage more than two million hectares of native forests and wetlands across Aotearoa over the next 30 years.
Come and learn and borrow a trap. Grab-and-go lunch provided on arrival.
