Thread: West Coast poison drop & no mention of repellant

Originally Posted by Tahr

2 things.
Repellent use seems to be tied to lobbying. Its expensive, but if its lobbied for it will more likely be used. The Tararua, Rimutaka and Haurangi operations over the next couple of years are all with repellent.
And this is an OSPRI/TB operation. Deer will be a by-kill, but not the target species. In any event, 1080 is not registered for use on deer so will not be used anywhere as a targeted/primary poison on them (thats not to say that in their operations DOC aren't quietly pleased when there is a deer by-kill).

You say this but the last time they poisoned the hihitahi bush up our way they were targeting possums and I walked in to zekes hut in the night a 2 hour walk with head torch and I only saw one possum. And then the deerstalkers had ospri come and talk to us in one of the deerstalkers meetings and we gave him the question about why they 1080d it and how many possums did they actually find for reason of poisoning and he was very good at dodging the question .

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