Thread: Help Stop 1080, please sign

Originally Posted by scotty

as long as there are humans there will be rats and other rodents its inescapable and thats why we will never be pest free. all the pest free islands are so because no-one lives on them....all it takes is a boat to go past with rats on board and bang rats again dont even have to land on the island rats are good swimmers . nature will dictate rat population if food source is plentiful then they will have a population explosion if theres a lot less food they will not have as many offspring... they can blame the once in a lifetime beech masts we have each year but if its not that it will be something else blame the cities and their dwellers for having so much waste thats where it all starts ... then if we do get all the native birds back in the numbers they used to be before i was born........the rat population will explode once again because the food source has recovered.......
guess my point is rat free NZ is impossible and those who sign off on the legislation to bring it about are clueless and maybe spent too much time on the electric puha when they were at uni

All of the cities in Alberta Canada are rat free.