Thread: Help Stop 1080, please sign

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Just what I expected. When challenged for some evidence to back up your claims you didn't/couldn't/wouldn't offer any.

I'm not a 1080 fan either, but as others have said it seems to be most cost effective option for NZ at the present.

Fuck it, I'll bit.
Poison and poison only will never ever succeed. EVER! It is a completely failed system.
Systems that are not a failure, regular visits.
It really is that simple and I should know as it's my job. I can take you to blocks that have been poisoned and six months later you would not know.
The most important thing to know is breeding cycles; rats 20 days, rabbits 28 days, possums yearly etc. This is a major factor in all control work just like monitoring.
Did you know doc and I think it was landcare research did a study on rats. A pre poison monitor then 12 months later a post poison monitor. The rat numbers were around 150% of the pre monitor numbers.
Did you know doc often do 1080 drops with NO MONITORING BEFOREHAND.
Did you know that without knowing the numbers of target animals you have no fucking idea on how much poison to use. They could be over OR under poisoning, by doing that they could in fact be dramatically increasing pest numbers. Animals that have had a sublethel dose will not go near 1080 ever again.
Do you understand how much secondary poisoning happens? Any bird that eats meat is fucked. We'll go through a poisoned block and see dead seagulls, hawks, NATIVE FALCONS etc. It wipes out quail as well.....

Edit to add: also note doc has doubled the amount of poison they are now putting out per hectare. Also note they are lying about the costs as I proved via the OIA. Dumbarses.

I feel sorry for some of those on the ground working for that idiot outfit.