When Kiwi kids are planning their future careers, there’s an option they may not have considered: working in the possum industry. New Zealand has tens of millions of possums running riot after being introduced here in the late 1800s, destroying native plants and gobbling up the resources needed by … [Read more...] about Project Possum: it’s business time
Schools
School kids take on the possums
In February 2015, as part of a maths project, the students of Elsthorpe School set up some possum traps in the area to see what happened. The results may surprise you... Elsthorpe School is a small, rural school in central Hawke’s Bay with just over 40 students. It’s surrounded by beautiful … [Read more...] about School kids take on the possums