Thread: Goodbye possums, rats and stoats

I hope it's possible to get rid of predators but I don't hold much hope.

I don't have a particularly like or dislike for 1080... I's just another poison. I do think airdrops are cheap, that is what DOC say on their website. I also think that there IS plenty of by-kill, some of it native and some non, I have seen it while out after drops. I don't really believe that there is some sort of corruption or conspiracy, well I haven't seen the evidence BUT I do believe there is some serious dogma (on both sides). For all the time they have been dropping 1080 they are just starting to admit there might be a problem with the Kea? It would be sad if one of my favorite bird was helped into extinction by aerial poison drops. Cant they make an exception and use ground methods in their habitats? But I think the ramifications of accepting the by-kill issue would cost so many millions in changing to Kea safe methods and would be effectively an admission of by-kill issues that would have huge political ramifications.

I just say be very careful about believing everything scientists (or Lobbyists) say as: 1. they are wrong sometimes. 2. someone pays their wages 3. there is way too much politics mixed up in this one.

Some of the new technologies are great such as Spitfire (automatic application trap) which you can leave in the bush for a year and will kill 100 animals (so they say). I hope they do spend money on these technologies and use them as a way out of aerial drops.

I just don't trust Politicians especially ones with grandiose projects they with no details of how they are going to deliver.