Thread: Has everyone shot their dogs and given up?

Originally Posted by EeeBees

I heard on the radio the other day that the twigs and tweeters reckon that the kiwi on the main islands will be 'extinct' in fifty years...like DOC liberating kiwi in a patch of native forest in upper Hawkes Bay some years ago...they were liberating birds where there was NO LEAF MOULD, humus negliable...you cannot just whack up a fence around a patch of bush in which and through which bovines and ovines graze and camp and throw in a few kiwi...while it might make everyone involved feel warm and fuzzy, it doesn't work like that.

Wikipedia has this to say re 1080 and the kiwi...

In 2004, anti-1080 activist Phillip Anderton posed for the New Zealand media with a kiwi he claimed had been poisoned. An investigation revealed that Anderton lied to journalists and the public. He had used a kiwi that had been caught in a possum trap. Extensive monitoring shows kiwi are not at risk from the use of biodegradable 1080 poison.


The poor dog...gets blamed for most stuff...how many kiwi are eaten by humans every year? Now there's a worthy hypothesis

I don't think kiwi are very good to eat. In all the research I did for the book 'Beneath the Southern Cross' I never found one statement on the quality of the flesh of kiwi. This says a lot from a race of born consumers of the flesh of nearly every creature of our forests and seas.

Feathers yes, they were much sought after. But apart from a remark about the birds flesh being musty there was no other references.

Extensive monitoring does show that Kiwi take cereal baits and 1080 has been found in Kiwi droppings.