22/06/2026
Moehau Environment Group (MEG) is a not-for-profit community organisation driving conservation action through education, predator control, and monitoring across public conservation land and private land in in the Northern Coromandel.
On Sunday 5 July, 5pm, MEG Operations Manager, Paul Johnson, will share how MEG started to build a new possum control network, their learnings, and their hopes for the recovery of possum damaged coastal forests.
Join MEG for a night of sharing experiences and knowledge at the Pepper Tree Restaurant.
Paul says, "In 2023 Moehau Environment Group switched to using AT220 automatic self-resetting traps from NZAutoTraps for possum control. We've been fascinated with the multi species, self-resetting traps since their first early prototypes 8+ years ago. This is the story of the dramatic change we found after installing a network of 190 traps in a fenceless sanctuary in Tangiaro/Port Charles (MEGa Pest Attack)."
"The results were so encouraging; we set up a new project protecting the damaged pōhutukawa coastal forests around Waikawau. Now 160 traps are placed along these coasts, and we have three years of data and camera monitoring to show how effective they have been at sustained possum control."
"MEG are linking with other community groups like Habitat Tuateawa and local landowners to extend this trapping project. Come see what we have been doing to protect Coromandel pōhutukawa, coastal forests and wildlife!", says Paul.
📸1: Camera monitoring of possum on AT220 trap | 2: Peri Mawson installing AutoTraps network | 3: Paul Johnson with trap.
