From the Taranaki Daily News: “Fingers are crossed at the Department of Conservation for fine weather in the last part of summer to drop 70 tonnes of 1080 pellets into the Egmont National Park. The saga of Operation Egmont has been dragging on since August last year. DOC was unable to fly helicopters into the…
Another blow was to dealt to NZ’s 100% Pure reputation today. First it was the Brazilian tourists who say they were sprayed with brush killer whilst hiking in the Kahurangi National Park, now it’s a group of contractors who allege they had toxic 1080 pellets dropped on their heads whilst out working. Ironically the aggrieved…
Those were the words of a Brazilian couple who say they were exposed to a “rain of chemicals” from a helicopter spraying gorse whilst they were tramping the Heaphy Track in the Kahurangi National Park, the second largest national park in New Zealand. The 78.4km Heaphy Track is the longest trail in the park and…
We recall an article back in July in the Otago Daily Times which covered the “theft” of Rata Wood from living trees on Pigeon Island. At the time there was a justifiable outcry about the wood having been hacked from the trees as the island is supposed to be one of the few places where…
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…
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