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Bats on the rise thanks to 1080, trapping - DoC

10/3/2018

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The Department of Conservation (DoC) is crediting predator control work for thriving numbers of two bat species and native birds in Fiordland National Park.

Summer monitoring has found numbers of the rare southern short-tailed bat are on the rise in its last remaining stronghold.
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DoC says it shows a mix of trapping, ground-based pesticides and periodic aerial 1080 drops are working.  

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Record numbers of bats after pest control

6/10/2015

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Monitoring studies show that targeted pest control operations last summer have led to record survival rates for short-tailed bats in the Eglinton valley in Fiordland.
DOC undertook a coordinated pest control programme in the Fiordland National Park valley last spring to combat a beech seed-fuelled rat and stoat plague over the summer. 

Results show 99% of the bat population survived following the Battle for our Birds pest control operation. 

This is almost twice the survival rates (50-60%) shown to occur without pest control in a beech mast (seeding) year. 

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Rat plague hurts bat populations

29/10/2014

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Marlborough Express

A rat plague could be the end of the long-tailed bats native to the Pelorus Bridge Scenic Reserve, a conservation volunteer says.

Giant rats feeding on dropped seeds from the reserve's beech trees had caused an explosion in rat numbers threatening a population of tiny endangered bats roosting in the area.

It prompted Forest & Bird to roll out trapping and baiting of rats, stoats and possums this month to help protect bats.

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