Ngatimoti School Trap Builders: The Video!

Ngatimoti School Year 8 students with the trips they've built for Farmers for Whio

Last year we sent our roving reporter to Ngatimoti School to hang out with some Year 8 students as they learnt how to build predator traps for Farmers For Whio.

In a year of great local conservation stories, this was one of our favourites. So we took the recorded interviews, added some awesome images from the day and threw in a bit of music to give you Ngatimoti School Trap Builders: The Video!

Yes, it’s been a long time coming but we think it’s worth it. We hope that you do too, and enjoy meeting these inspiring rangatahi once again as they talk about building traps and saving whio.

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