Thread: Decades of 1080….before and after

Hi all

Just a very simple wondering I’ve had for a while and haven’t been able to answer for myself with some admittedly fairly shallow diving in the internet.
I loathe 1080 as most of us do and for all of the reasons we are familiar with. However I acknowledge that there is probably nothing else out there that kills as many of its target species (removing the killing of non targeted species, throwing poison into the outdoors etc etc) so I guess it’s here to stay for a while.
My question is has anyone quantified its long term effectiveness…and by that I mean given NZ probably had a good hundred years where pest animals went unchecked outside of trapping etc and obviously needed to time to build from initial introduction numbers to a healthy population but I wonder what the numbers were from just before the introduction of 1080 into NZ compared to numbers today after continuous cycles of drops….I guess you have to include declining numbers of species they are wishing to protect into the equation but if there were no further drops would the pest population just reach a natural but possibly acceptable population?
It’s an over simplistic question I know but I’m sure you get my gist….