Kereru © James Allan
9th November 2026
Our second Impact Report celebrates a year of real growth. As well as the statistics, it tells the stories behind them.
Between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, our network of over 270 active trappers in 70 trapping groups carried out 44,789 trap checks across more than 4,600 traps. That’s around 7,460 hours of volunteer effort, and it removed 15,284 pests from our environment, protecting native wildlife every day of the year.
Conservation is about more than numbers of pests caught. It’s about growing a community of people who care. This year we trained 95 new trapping volunteers, connected with around 1,000 school students through the Conservation Curiosity Collective (C³), and welcomed 218 people to our workshops and field outings.
We launched new projects to find out how our wildlife is responding to all this incredible trapping mahi: community monitoring across nine sites (and growing!), the Ben Lomond moth survey and the Whakatipu Lizard Project.
Read the full report below. Ngā mihi nui to everyone who made this year possible!
Here is our map of predator traps in the Whakatipu – source Trap NZ
Thank you to every single person who contributed to these remarkable numbers in 2026. Here’s to an even bigger impact in 2027!
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