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14. The future Integrated predator control will go ahead once more during the 2008/09 year with the control methods remaining unchanged. 15. Costs Set out below is a breakdown of costs from Greater Wellington’s SAP financial system up until the end of the financial year 30 June 2008. Vehicle/plant 596.07 Labour 744.00 Material/supplies 192.64 Total: 1,532.71 PAGE 12 OF 44 WGN_DOCS-#609098-V1 $
Lake Pounui 16. Executive summary This is a further updated report for Lake Pounui for the year 2007/08. It is a follow on report from the report prepared in 2006/07. Predator control was a bit more intensive during the last financial year, with 10 monthly visits made to service the equipment. 17. Recommendations • Continue to undertake long term integrated predator control at Lake Pounui with site checks to be carried out on a monthly basis when time is available. • Should funding be available consider expanding this operation out towards the old original operational boundary to once again include the (Dog Hill) KNE. This extension could possibly be tendered out to a service provider if it was approved to go ahead. • Continue to monitor rat and invertebrate dynamics in the Lake Pounui catchment as per the recommendations of Greater Wellington. • Continue to carry out point distance monitoring of native bird species at set times during the year as recommended by Greater Wellington. 18. Objectives • To maintain possum populations at less than 5% RTC. • To reduce predator populations to low levels therefore improving the biodiversity values of the Pounui Lake and its surrounding catchment. 19. Operational area The operational area remains unchanged at approximately 480 hectares with emphasis on protecting the lakeshore margins and the Battery Stream. There are now 66 control sites in place and the control techniques remain unchanged from previous years. Most feral cats trapped are caught out on the bush/pasture margins. During the 2005/06 year there was an Animal Health Board funded aerial 1080 possum control maintenance operation carried out through the Rimutaka Range which also extended into the back of the Lake Pounui catchment. The front section of the catchment was treated by hand with bait bags containing 1080 pellets which were stapled to trees. This operation has further reduced the low possum population that existed within the catchment and it will have reduced rat densities to low levels also. WGN_DOCS-#609098-V1 PAGE 13 OF 44
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