Thread: Tell 'em they're dreaming . . . Govt announces new policy, predator free by 2050

Her eis a thought,

They found a few foreign Fruit flies in Auckland a few years back....How much did they spend to remove these pests from becoming established? They were in a small area, and in numbers that if they were natives would be condsidered extremely endangered. That level of effort across the whole country will destroy us.

I am not saying they did the wrong thing there, quite the opposite, it was something we definitely do not want here and they were right to pursue that course of action. But do they realise, that was like a teenager saying "I changed a light bulb in my car, that means I am ready to do a full strip down and restoration on it. Should be ready by the weekend...."

I like the idea they want to try, I like the idea that they want to do more to eradicate and control pests, but they are attempting something they cannot ever even hope to succeed at.