Southland Branch - New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Welcome.
Good News! Our clubrooms at Longbush has been reroofed thanks to Community Trust of Southland for their financial assistance.
LATEST NEWS FROM OUR RAT TRAPPING PROGRAM. updated 13/1/11
For the last four years members have been undertaking a rat control program at Mason Bay Stewart Island. Between September - Dec 2009 6 parties involving 26 members spent man 156 days checking 300 traps over 14 km of lines. A record number of 665 rats were killed. Thanks to Community Trust of Southland for their financial support. For the full 2009 report click on Stewart Island at the left. 2010 saw a much reduced number of rats around. Our trapping parties for 2010 year killed 180 rats. A full report is available online at http://www.southlanddeerstalkers.org.nz/documents/DOCDM-723830_Mason_Bay_Rat_Trapping_Report_2010-11.pdf
WAPITI IN FIORDLAND (Photo Roy Sloan)