A local school can now say it contributes to the protection of one of our native forests after sponsoring two pest traps.
Otonga Rd School chose the Rotorua Canopy Tours forest restoration project as its fundraising target for 2014.
By the end of the year, pupils at the school raised enough money to install a possum trap and a rat trap in the Dansey Rd Scenic Reserve.
Former Otonga Rd School pupils and student council members Hazel Hulme, 11, Ethan Cameron, 11, and Jessica Duncan, 11, were picked to do the canopy tour and help lay the possum and rat traps.