In October, local farmer-led catchment collective Tukituki Land Care (TLC) launched Hawke’s Bay’s first-ever predator trap library, giving Tukituki farmers access to more than 500 free-to-borrow traps to help control predators across the catchment. The project aims to reduce numbers of mustelids, rats, hedgehogs, and possums to boost native biodiversity, support wetland and bush regeneration, and limit the spread of diseases that can affect livestock. The launch event in Ongaonga drew farmers...

Central Hawke’s Bay farmer-led catchment collective Tukituki Land Care (TLC) has launched a major new project to tackle erosion-prone hill country in the Tukituki catchment, as part of the Hawke’s Bay Land for Life initiative - a partnership between Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC), the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and The Nature Conservancy Aotearoa New Zealand (TNC NZ). The TLC High Risk Erosion Action Plan targets four key sub-catchments - Mangamahaki, Mangarara, Makara and...

For more than three decades, Steve Treseder has been working to environmentally enhance a sheep and beef property in the lower...