Thread: Purchasing products from Forest & Bird Sponcers .

Originally Posted by Cordite

Dear JB HiFi

First of all, I enjoy using your physical shop in Dunedin. Staff, even the security guards at the entrance, are always friendly. Some time ago we suffered a burglary and I will always remember the helpfulness of one of the Dunedin JB HiFi store owners in sorting out replacements for us with our insurance company.
That said, I was disappointed and uneasy to learn that JB HiFi has appeared on a sponsor list for NZ "Forest and Bird" society. F&B has a benign sounding name but it is not some benign nature protection organisation, nor has it respect for animals.

-- F&B supports extreme culls of threatened species such as Himalayan Tahr, which has found a survival niche in New Zealand. They are shot from helicopters and left to rot. That Tahr is a threatened species matters little to F&B, what matters to them is that it is a non-maori (non-indigenous) species and so does not belong in NZ, and native tussock grass is more important to save. That guided Tahr hunting is a multi million dollar industry down the impoverished NZ South Island West Coast area does not matter to F&B.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-countr...ectid=12347244

-- Remember the Pike River coal mine tragedy? The mine had an unhelpful 2 km access tunnel because F&B thought some limited local scenery in an inaccessible spot was more important, and 27 human lives ended up being lost through a mining operation that could have been straightforward and able to be cleaned up perfectly after completion. This again affected the impoverished NZ West Coast community, no doubt sponsored mainly by well-intentioned city-dwellers.

-- F&B is also strongly in favour of using mass drops of 1080 poison on public conservation lands. The NZ Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposes 1080 use, because 1080 poison is known to inflict intense suffering on animals. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12202919

Thank you for your time in reading this. I humbly ask that JB HiFi considers quietly dropping your sponsorship support of NZ Forest and Bird.

Yours sincerely

Cordite
Dunedin

Moari are not indigenous in this country, please never refer to them as such in any text ever again.
Otherwise well done.