Thread: Nelson Lakes getting the Green rain over 33000ha in July...better get into it.

Originally Posted by stingray

So if Poison the whole valley, the ones from the others side will re colonise ...so if we do both valleys then the ones from the next range will recolonise ...so if we do the whole country the surviours will recolonise ...seems to me like we have no end game! Except then fact that 50% of tagged kea got wiped out in the last 1080 campaign ...so rats survive and breed whilst kea die ...hmmm

No rats die with 1080 as you know... Yes 50% of the tagged kea died from 1080 and that is a big embarrassing loss . I think as i have said previously DOC dont get it right all the time. There is plenty of information though that would suggest that the remaining kea will breed succesfully [they will bloody need to] to make up the losses. To do nothing is to ensure the failure of the kea population. You can see in the link from 2009 to 2014 ONLY 2% of nests in areas without predator control were successful, those figures will ensure the demise of the kea population !
https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/tia...g-results/kea/