Taupo Council Passes Anti-1080 Resolution

At last, a council strong enough and with the courage to take on the mighty 1080 machine within New Zealand. Taupo District Council have passed a resolution calling for a sustainable alternative to the highly toxic pesticide 1080 (chemical name sodium fluoroacetate) and for all aerial dropping to cease: That the Taupo District Council, in…

Farmers Against 1080 (FATE)

It’s good to see that farmers, so often the guardians of a nations land and wildlife, have started to organise themselves into a pressure group called Farmers Against Ten Eighty (FATE) a group that has serious concerns about the use of 1080 in New Zealand and is calling for alternatives that are “genuinely clean, green…

1080 Use In Westland

Source: Scoop, 4 Sept, 2008 Westland Regional Environmental Network (WREN) has today announced its existence and intentions to the public of Westland. The Group’s primary aim is: The implementation of publicly acceptable pest and TB control methods to replace 1080 use in Westland. WREN has formed in response to the depth of community feeling against…