Welcome to the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s webpage about possums.
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Possum Control Areas (PCA)
The control of possums is the major focus of Council's animal pest control programme. There is now over 400,000 hectares under the PCA programme within the Hawke's Bay region. Click here to view our PCAs.
To achieve the strategy objective of reducing possum densities across the region, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is seeking the continued support and assistance of land occupiers. The Council has identified a range of management methods that it will implement to achieve both the long term goal and the strategy objective. The principal method is the establishment of ‘Possum Control Areas’ where the council arranges for initial possum control to low densities to be carried out and then requires land occupiers to maintain possum numbers at those low densities. Council will continue to assist in possum control on covenanted areas, subsidising possum bait, and providing advice and information to land occupiers.
Urban Possum Control
The Regional Council is reducing urban possum pests to low levels in urban areas through the HuB programme - Hawke's Bay Urban Biodiversity. Urban possum operations use a variety of safe, proven control methods. The success of the operation will depend on community support. The methods used for private properties will be selected in discussion with the owner/occupier. Methods include live capture traps, Timms Trap, Possum Master and bait stations.
If you are in a HuB control zone and you have a possum problem now (perhaps a particular tree or route favoured by the possums in your neighbourhood) please let the contractor know when they contact you as the information will be valuable in planning the best placement of traps.
Similar operations will be managed in the future in other urban areas. Look for more answers on the FAQ page.
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Self help- The council requires all landowners within Possum Control Areas to maintain possum densities at or below a 5% residual trap catch. At a minimum council requires all landowners within a Possum Control Area to carry out an annual maintenance programme.
For more information of what’s available to you for possum control area or to contact your advisory officer for your area click here or select an Environmental Topic below for information that may help you.
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