Thread: Pureora North Block 1080 drop

True true still no need for this 1080crap

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Originally Posted by jack

True true still no need for this 1080crap

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learn to live with it...because it aint going away anytime soon.

Originally Posted by Spook

learn to live with it...because it aint going away anytime soon.

never will with that attitude

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Might have to

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We'll find a way one day she'll be right

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Well that sounds like a great idea, but NZ First is a waste of your vote.

Yea? Who on the list isnt a wasted vote?.....

Here we are living in a country with some of the most clever scientific minds in the world and we have not yet worked out that if we applied a mass aerial drop of a chemical sterilisation bait programme, within the life expectancy period of Possums, and Mustalids we would have achieved a mass eradication. Why is this when the idea has been put out there for some time? Colour me cynical but I reckon it is not because we don't have the science but moreover because there is no will to do it because there is no sustainable income to be had from it.

I think all the hunters should form voluntary troops and shootout/trap the areas that get 1080 drop. (firearm safety & ethical hunting practice taken in consideration - so please no crap on that) - The 100 million per year or whateva the allocation may be for the area can be used by the troops for this work. (for ammo, food, flyin etc etc ). Has this kinda thing neva been negotiated.

I guess we would be on a win-win situation if approved to do so by getting the opportunity to do what we like doing the best while eliminating the 1080 issue as well.

Originally Posted by initiaz

I think all the hunters should form voluntary troops and shootout/trap the areas that get 1080 drop. (firearm safety & ethical hunting practice taken in consideration - so please no crap on that) - The 100 million per year or whateva the allocation may be for the area can be used by the troops for this work. (for ammo, food, flyin etc etc ). Has this kinda thing neva been negotiated.

I guess we would be on a win-win situation if approved to do so by getting the opportunity to do what we like doing the best while eliminating the 1080 issue as well.

90% of the hunters that go bush couldn't hunt/shoot for shit...the other 10% are made up of the dedicated few and the lucky one's...what you envisage would require the whole population of this country to take up hunting.

Originally Posted by Spook

90% of the hunters that go bush couldn't hunt/shoot for shit...the other 10% are made up of the dedicated few and the lucky one's...what you envisage would require the whole population of this country to take up hunting.

I take it your one of the 90% then.

Originally Posted by H&K MAN

I take it your one of the 90% then.

Probably...or one of the lucky one's.

Originally Posted by Spook

90% of the hunters that go bush couldn't hunt/shoot for shit...the other 10% are made up of the dedicated few and the lucky one's...what you envisage would require the whole population of this country to take up hunting.

I guess than we cant be just moaning about it for what DOC is doing. We don't like 1080 because our spots get wasted for a year or 2 but they have a bigger picture to look at. If we protest to have 1080 drops stopped than we sure need to get an alternative to the pest problem.

My views are not in favor for the 1080 drops, i hate that too but we need to think logically as well.. We all know we have a pest problem at hand that needs to be controlled so if its NO to 1080 than definitely there needs to be some other way round. Otherwise we will soon start to blame DOC again for the pests once they are out of control. lol

1080 aerial poisoning operations cost on average in excess of $57 per ha. Most trappers get paid nothing and pay their own way through recovery and sale of skins, fur and meat. The 1080poison industry is a scam directed at killing all introduced wildlife while sustaining massive unproductive bureaucracies. For every hectare that a trapper can recover possum products at zero cost from, another hectare is created that could have a $114 subsidy placed on it without any increased cost to the farmer, forest owner or taxpayer. When you work through the figures it becomes pretty obvious what is going on in reality.

its more the point that 1080 kills deer and many our living things. so with out saying we target deer they find a excuse to bomb an area siting TB or biodiversity to reduce deer numbers. secondly if ground control was done deer wouldn't be targeted and thirdly someone in government or closely linked to government has a invested interest in using 90% of all 1080 manufactured and making a fuck load of money. Epro seam to rain heaps of this shit on the bush maybe a link there behind closed doors. how many years has 1080 been used yet the problem remains the same. to find a alternative one first needs to look for it