Thread: 1080

why cause 1080 is cheap - highly likely contraceptive options will not be really actively pursued because of cost - and there are some problems - it is likely that a contraceptive would go out as an aerial pellet - that wont kill the possum and neither will that contraceptive spread amongst the possum population - it will only effect the possum that eats that pellet - any bio toxin -disease or any organisim that kills possums and can spread thru the population is quite frankly bloody scary -why well the risk of mutation and jumping species is huge and would need years of study and proof of safety -so we have cheap 1080 - overseas contraception is used so that the greenies dont see the animal die it simply cant breed - so their little greenie minds are somewhat placated - so all we can do is keep DOC and the other agencys using 1080 honest - some key points 1) DOC need to stop forcing down our throat that the 1080 used is a natural product -wrong !! what used is a man made substitute that is chemically altered from natural occuring 1080 and should not be called the same thing 2) operations are safe - wrong!! the aerial 1080 industry is littered with cockups - including buckets dropped ,bucket malfunctions, overfly of boundarys are quite common, operator and pilot error are common i.e spills - buckets started at wrong time - DOC choose to not tell you when they stuff up - but the aerial 1080 reports are available online -but be warned they dont go back very far -the single biggest risk is if a full bucket was dropped into a stream used as a water supply - cant happen yeah right DOC not allowed to overfly water supplys yeah right- they are given permission by the medical officer of health in Taranaki to overfly the water supply of 80,000 plus people thats right- all water supplys coming of Mount Taranaki are overflown with bait - and DOC get away with it