PEANUT BUTTER POWER – A Rat’s Worst Nightmare

We’re excited to share a sticky, nutty update: the peanut butter has landed! 🥜🐀

Thanks to the epic generosity of Pic’s Peanut Butter, Predator Free New Zealand Trust, and Masons Contractors who helped us move it to site, we now have a massive supply of peanut butter available for predator control efforts across Rodney East.

Whether you're trapping in backyards, reserves, or rural bush blocks, this is your invitation to stock up and get stuck in. It’s a game-changer for our local predator control mahi—and the rats won’t know what hit them.

💼 For Groups with Shared Storage Access:

If you already have access to our shared storage, you’re more than welcome to help yourself to the peanut butter. You’ll find a new peanut butter page in the lending book—please write down your group name and the quantity you’re taking. This isn’t about monitoring or judgement—it simply helps us track how the supply is being used so we can plan better next time.

We encourage you to take as much as you can store and use—there’s plenty to go around! And if you can, please start from the entrance end of the shelf so we can gradually free up space in the Shared Tools & Resources Library.

📩 Don’t Have Access Yet?

If you're part of a Rodney East community group involved in predator control but don’t yet have access to our shared resources, we’d love to connect with you. Just click the button below to email us, and we’ll sort out access so your group can get baiting too.

👉 facilitator@rre.org.nz

🙌 A Huge Thank You

This delivery wouldn’t have been possible without the support of:

• Pic’s Peanut Butter – for turning NZ’s favourite spread into a secret weapon against invasive pests

• Predator Free New Zealand Trust – for making this incredible resource available to grassroots groups like ours

• Masons Contractors – for helping with the logistics of 2 pallets arriving!

We’re so grateful for their backing, and we know our native birds and bush will be better off because of it.

📸 Show Us Your Mahi!

Using the peanut butter already? We’d love to see it in action! Send us your photos of traps, bait stations, or your group out in the field—we’re always keen to celebrate the hands-on work happening across the rohe.

Let’s put this peanut butter to work and keep chipping away at the predator-free future we’re building, one bait station at a time. Rodney East—you’ve got this! 🐾