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…
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…
Fresh waves of animal exterminations are to be carried out on Rangitoto and Motutapu Islands by the Department of Conservation Auckland on Friday of this week, as a break in the weather will provide suitable conditions for the first of three aerial drops of 70 tonnes of ‘rat bait’. The poison Brodifacoum is typically used…
Following on from today’s other article about the “Poisoning Paradise” documentary I thought it would be useful to see how the eco-tourism industry has been affected by the use of 1080 in NZ. This article is a report from a recent Eco-tourism New Zealand conference near Greymouth.Source: Stuff New Zealand’s eco-tourism industry is trying to…
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…
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