Thread: Warning Distressing and Disturbing Photographs- 1080 Poison

Woody, I am back from my tramp

You should really stick to anti-1080 activism and leave economics to other people ...

So the $ 60 / ha figure. That's maybe a bit on the high end (considering the source), some of the publicly available estimates are as low as $ 12 / ha. But let's not quible, I expect the real amount is somewhere in the middle...

Now the core problem with your argument. You somehow multiply that by your 200 ha example, and come up with $ 12 K PER DAY !!! Only one minor problem, 1080 is not applied daily. It is not even applied monthly or annually to the same area. Anyone who has had their favorite hunting area go through a stand-down period will know this very well. The reality is that 1080 is applied maybe once every 3 years for rats and 5 years or longer for possums. So even at $ 60 per ha, you are looking at an annual cost of $ 20 / ha or less. And by the way, that includes pre-bait and monitoring. It is the total operational cost.

All of this is easy to check. The EPA publishes annual info on the area in ha that was treated with 1080. The annual budgets for DOC / AHB / OSPRI etc are not that hard to find.

Anyone with half a brain should realize that trying to equate the effect of a a single application of 1080 to a couple of days worth of trapping is laughable at best, and that is ignoring your "creative" maths