Wild Aro: trapping predators and bringing back the birds!

Wild Aro is a community-based, volunteer effort to help restore native birds to Wellington's Aro Valley. We're part of the national Predator Free New Zealand initiative.

Our main work is to trap rats and other predators in backyards and in the bush, and we've already achieved considerabile success. We also clear rubbish and weeds from our part of the Wellington green belt and plant native trees and bushes.

Trapping in Aro Valley will help provide another area for tieke, kaka, tui and other native birds to nest in as they fly down from Zealandia. It'll also stop the reinvasion by rats of neighbouring areas where they have been removed or reduced.