Camera Trap and Pest Control Field Day
Event description
Landholders from across South Gippsland have been borrowing camera traps and finding out which native animals live on their properties. This has included species like lyrebirds and koalas where they weren’t previously recorded.
We’ll share the best photos taken by project participants and have a sneak peek at some of the amazing animals living in our region.
These animals are under threat from predation and habitat destruction from pest animals such as foxes, cats, rabbits and deer. Come along and learn how to control pest animals on your property and protect wildlife.
Aaron Stephens from the BCLN Invasive Species Team will talk us through the options for fox and rabbit control. He will demonstrate the use of traps and bating and discuss how to create a strategy for long term control.
Richard Francis will is a biologist and also has on ground expertise in deer control.
He will cover lethal and non-lethal control methods.
A field day to promote pest control after discovering pest species as part of the VLG camera trap study.
Participants across the network have captured 1000's of images gaining valuable insight into the wildlife and introduced species.
Cassie and Kirby will recap the surprising and exciting discoveries from the participants in the study. We will discuss the presence of pest species and how the knowledge gained can help build our capacity to control them.
There will be presentations from two field experts who will cover control methods for Rabbits, Foxes, Cats and
Deer as well as a practical baiting demonstration.
Aaron is the head of the BCLN Invasive Species Team. Aaron will talk us through the options for fox and rabbit control. He will demonstrate the use of traps and bating and discuss how to create a strategy for long term control.
Richard is a zoologist and botanist with a huge depth of field-knowledge. Richard has been actively working to raise community awareness of the importance and methods of controlling pest animals, which are irreversibly damaging our native environment. He will discuss lethal and non-lethal control methods.
LUNCH INCLUDED