Far left: Rotorua Canopy Tours. From centre top: The rytinotus squamulosus, lxerba longhorn beetle. Bottom right: Close up of a spiny longhorn beetle. Photo: Rotorua Canopy Tours. Bryce McQuillan photography
An adventure tourism business set high in the air has found great success in conservation efforts down on the ground.
Rotorua Canopy Tours has operated in the Okoheriki or Dansey Road Scenic Reserve site since 2012, as part of a partnership with DoC.
As tourists zip through the trees, they pass over nearly 800 traps the company's set as part of massive pest eradication programme.
Now two years of monitoring by Scion Research has discovered predator control has proving beneficial to the area's bug life.
Carl Wardhaugh, an entomologist with Scion Research explains what they found and Paul Button, general manager of Rotorua Canopy Tours, talks to the company's ongoing pest eradication efforts.
