As part of a holistic approach towards pest control, and due to the increasing numbers of Indian Mynas breeding in the Baw Baw shire area, NDLG applied for a grant to begin a community based program trapping and eradicating them.
We began by running an information night dealing with all pest animals and the ways of dealing with them. Forty people turned up and we gathered some information as to who was interested in each species and had enough people interested to go forward with a Trap building workshop.
We advertised a field day in Oct and were expecting ten to twenty people for the workshop. Sixty turned up and this surprised everyone, both the numbers and the enthusiasm towards trapping Mynas. We havre made contact with an interested group in a lifestyle village and in the Warragul scouts and have had a second field day .
