Thread: Expensive wallabies

Originally Posted by Zedrex

I'm no expert on the use of 1080 BUT, DOC has been using 1080 for what, 50 years as it's primary tool to try eradicate possums amongst others and it has been an utter failure. It doesn't seem to work does it? So you have to wonder why they keep doing the same old thing time after time with predictable results. Then there's the other elephant in the room...the VAST MAJORITY of OECD territories have prohibited the use of 1080 yet NZ continues to use it.....what do they know that we either don't know, or choose to ignore cos "she'll be right"......

This is outdated thinking really. It works alright in a planned management regime. We continue to use it because we don't have vulnerable native mammals like other countries do.
1080 has virtually eliminated wallaby from some of the blocks that we previously culled hundreds off.