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Bait tubes

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Bait tubes

These Department of Conservation staff are making the tubes that were used as bait stations in a 1988 programme to eradicate rats from Breaksea Island, Fiordland.

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Bob Brockie, Introduced animal pests – Rats and mice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10123/bait-tubes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bob Brockie, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.