Thread: Molesworth Ballot 2018

Originally Posted by gimp

It was an OSPRI operation, not DOC. How can DOC be targeting deer with an operation that they're not involved in running?

@gimp
If operations such as poisoning or trapping are desired to be conducted on NZ public land administered by DoC, then a specific permit has to be applied for to DoC. There has to be an assessment of likely environmental impacts including effects on indigenous wildlife which is a mandatory part of the operational permit application to DoC. The permission has to be signed off by DoC as well as by the resource consent authority. Therefore DoC, in every instance has the option of insisting on trapping to achieve target specifics such as possums and rats and stoats; and declining the use of poisons such as 1080 or brodifacoum (TALON) or Pindone or cholicaciferol or PAPP or other nasty stuff. Furthermore DoC is supposed to require a post operation assessment of whether non target species were affected and to what degree; especially in relation to the AEE claims made in the initial operational application. The vital requirement is seldom met and the public left deliberately unaware of the post operational negative effects.

In short, one can only conclude that in many cases, including Molesworth, that DoC is tacitly enjoying the massive bykill of game animals when possum is the "official" (har har) actual excuse. Public advisement of non compliance in terms of deleterious effects on protected species is seldom achieved, and one can only conclude that this deliberate by both DoC and OSPRI and the consenting authority involved. For instance, where is the AEE and then the post operational assessment of the AEE assumtions pertaining to the Molesworth operation??
Where is the real obfuscation? It sure as hell is'nt by the public MATE.