You can help New Zealand pigeon/kererū

New Zealand pigeon/kererū

There are lots of ways you can protect kererū in your region:

• Control predators (possums, cats, rats and stoats) in your bush by trapping or poisoning. By controlling rats and possums, kererū populations can increase by 50 percent in two years.
• If you find an occupied nest and trapping/poisoning is not an option, band the tree and interconnecting trees to exclude predators.
• Consider planting trees to feed the kererū. Tree lucerne is useful in the short-term as it flowers prolifically in winter and grows quickly; for a long-term solution, plant miro, titoki, tawa, fuchsia, kōwhai, five-finger, pate, pigeonwood, taraire, puriri and wineberry.
• Please do not hunt the kereru.