Predator Free Matamata

REGISTER FOR TAMAHERE TRAPLINE TOUR: Join GoEco's Greg Townsend and Predator Free Tamahere for a walk along their trapline on April 20 at 10am, at Tamahere Reserve. All welcome!
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3cmuchjd

Improve your trapping skills! Join Go Eco and Predator Free Te Aroha at the Tui Park Bowling Club in Te Aroha on April 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM (NZST) for a practical, hands-on session covering lures, trap maintenance, predator behaviour and so much more. A great chance to get those burning trapping questions answered by an expert!

Whether you're just starting out at trapping or an experienced campainer, this workshop will cater to all. Help us bring the bird song back to Te Aroha!

Our parent body, Transition Matamata, has just changed its name to Sustainable Matamata. See this link for the post
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17pBx7Q6qS/

Our new name and logo have landed!

The new name, Sustainable Matamata, has formally replaced Transition Matamata to more fully express our aspirations. Our purposes remain (in brief): to educate and work hands-on towards reducing our communities' impact on the environment. The committee extends its grateful thanks to Thierry Vandeputte (the artist father of our secretary, Fiona Vandeputte), who created our new logo in various shapes and sizes. We are now only waiting for Facebook to process our name change, which seems to be taking a while!

The Sustainability Fun Day subcommittee will discuss ideas for a formal, but lighthearted, launch of the new name on the Fun Day next March. If you have ideas or wish to volunteer your time for the Sustainability Fun Day, please feel free to join us at the next meeting, which will be held at The Merchant of Matamata this Thursday at 6:30 pm.

We went to this last year - great event!
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Waikato Pestival A community workshop on predator control, native wildlife restoration, and practical action across Hamilton and Waikato.

Predator Free Matamata and Ngāti Hinerangi had an awesome time at Matamata Primary building traps with Natalie de Jong's trapping group who have just started their trapping competition in term 3. Thanks to Pete, Vic, Stuart, Mohi and Wiremu for their support

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Predator Free NZ have just launched some booklets on controlling a range of predators. They can be downloaded from here
https://predatorfreenz.org/research/guides/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMHXpZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsbToI7yBhLcOjsTdeHwTSiTKpWKOWsRJnxBvzblTMNQJ-d7UQuiBUheoJhm_aem_4YVVLdwsLmLsozI2bvavPA

The hands-on guide to predator control: made for community groups and projects Eight experts share knowledge on predator control to create a new resource: The hands-on guide to predator control for community groups and projects.

With Karlyn Kahui and the trapping team including Mike, Jenni, Wiremu and Lionel in the Kaimais today in awesome weather. Tally was 9 possums.