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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be Route.

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Speaker 2: Climb passes our man in the garden, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Jack. Have you got possums?

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Speaker 2: We don't have possums. I look, I'm knocking wood everywhere.

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Speaker 2: I actually think at the moment, we don't have too many.

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Speaker 2: Peace I'm not even sure that we have rats at

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Speaker 2: the moment. I put out my trap and I get

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Speaker 2: nothing in it.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, well that that sounds good.

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Speaker 4: Maybe we could change some bait, yes, to just make sure,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they can smell me. That's always my concern, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly exactly. I remember Paul Home saying the same thing. No,

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Speaker 4: I haven't got possums. So I taught him how to

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Speaker 4: how to imitate possums, like he says, I hear it

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Speaker 4: every night.

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Speaker 2: He said, Yeah, and you know all the damage you're getting, yeah,

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Speaker 2: on your fruit trees and everything else. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: they might have something.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it does exactly. There was a funny actually, but

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Speaker 3: you're absolutely right that the side work.

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Speaker 4: I've chuck some pictures in there of all sorts of

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Speaker 4: trees that they have been literally due to bump to

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Speaker 4: buggery as we call it, with bipossums, and you don't

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Speaker 4: sometimes really realize that that's what these guys are doing.

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Speaker 4: It's unbelievable. The other sign is scratches on the back,

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Speaker 4: so when they climb up, they have these enormous uh

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Speaker 4: what do you call it, and feet that can actually

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Speaker 4: make these enormous cratches. And it's probably also a marking

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Speaker 4: of territory. I would say, that's what that is. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And then under underneath the tree always find their pools

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Speaker 4: as well, which are quite clever to see. They're slightly

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Speaker 4: bigger than red spools of twice three times the size,

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Speaker 4: if you like, and quite solid, but you can always

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Speaker 4: tell them that's uh, that's those are the gigs. And

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Speaker 4: it's really good. But what you just mentioned was really

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Speaker 4: called the old lemon trees and mandarin trees and things

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Speaker 4: like that.

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Speaker 3: Goodness me. Yeah, have you ever seen it?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I've I've seen not I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: I've seen it on the on the fruit trees necessarily,

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Speaker 2: I've seen the photos and the fruit trees. But I

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Speaker 2: mean they absolutely go to town, right.

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Speaker 4: They certainly do, especially the Boss, especially in terms of

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Speaker 4: fans of citrus. They to the the whole skin off,

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Speaker 4: not the actual fruit.

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Speaker 3: Often it's just somebody.

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Speaker 4: Who's been there overnight and basically feeling all the skin

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Speaker 4: off the fruit. And it's just incredible to see that

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Speaker 4: that's what they tend to like to do. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: exactly what it is. So the problem we had earlier

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Speaker 4: on a couple of decades ago, you know, when we

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Speaker 4: set that project Crimson Ohise, Porto Kawa was being done

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Speaker 4: up by these these robbers and and it's basically what

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Speaker 4: we try to achieve to get that stopped and to

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Speaker 4: get the PoTA kawa back in Northland in good numbers.

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Speaker 3: And that's been working quite well. Actually, that's nice.

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Speaker 4: But then I came across a bit of a statistic.

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Speaker 4: If you take all the possums in New Zealand together,

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Speaker 4: they eat each side twenty one thousand tons of vegetable material.

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Speaker 2: What. Yeah, and that's not why do we have that

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Speaker 2: much available for them?

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Speaker 3: No, that's it.

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Speaker 4: And that is, of course, that's, by the way, the

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Speaker 4: same weight as the sky tower.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So that means that a lot of trees are being damaged, absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 4: And that also means that, of course there will be

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Speaker 4: all sorts of troubles our with our carbon sequestration and

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Speaker 4: all that sort of stuff that keeps on going. So

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Speaker 4: what do you do? Get a possum trip? Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: you know one of those tim strips or a flip

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Speaker 4: and timmy.

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Speaker 3: They're good.

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Speaker 4: But they said, you've also got these trips that reset

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Speaker 4: themselves and they go time after time after time.

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Speaker 3: And here comes the best gig I have for you.

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Speaker 4: That's from Cam Speedy, the guy that pus said the

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Speaker 4: Kiwi uwe last week we were were talking about kiwi

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Speaker 4: and doing it. You make a blaze which is a

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Speaker 4: white drawn thing on the trunk with flour one kilogram

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Speaker 4: and icing sugar, have a go.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice, add a bit of cinnamon bit, a peach bit,

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Speaker 2: a eucalyptus, maybe some vanilla resents.

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Speaker 3: Sounds like we go boy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be a last dish for those possums.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for We'll put that little mix

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Speaker 2: actually from Cam up on the News talks 'DB website.

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