Thread: Nelson Lakes getting the Green rain over 33000ha in July...better get into it.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Have you ever been into native bush never 1080d and heard the beautiful dawn chourus? Slogged up onto the tops and had the kea pulling the tape from your barrel while you glassed distant Deer or Chamois or Thar? And then been back into those areas that had been in a balance of "pests" and natives and seen the results not just once but over years.
I have.

I am not amused.

The science does not agree with you.

Mohua were one of the most prolific birds in our beech forests... Read the threats and conservation, also read where they are making a comeback in areas where effective rat and stoat control is taking place. 1080 is effective rat and stoat control.

Yellowhead | New Zealand Birds Online



Here is something from many many years ago where you can see the decline long before the use of 1080. Read what was there..and now read the reason for the decline.

http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/OPNZDOCNM81.pdf

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

The science does not agree with you.

Mohua were one of the most prolific birds in our beech forests... Read the threats and conservation, also read where they are making a comeback in areas where effective rat and stoat control is taking place. 1080 is effective rat and stoat control.

Yellowhead | New Zealand Birds Online



Here is something from many many years ago where you can see the decline long before the use of 1080. Read what was there..and now read the reason for the decline.

http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/OPNZDOCNM81.pdf

The "science" will say whatever the money wants it to say.

The other link is too much to look at on my phone....but I will look at it.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

The "science" will say whatever the money wants it to say.

The other link is too much to look at on my phone....but I will look at it.

I saw this the other day re your science, money...

Even on Gilligans Island they asked advice from the professor and not the millionaire... i will go with the science everytime.