Thread: Pureora North Block 1080 drop

Eliminate the government problem solved

Originally Posted by Dundee

Eliminate the government problem solved

Get hold of a bag of that 1080 shit, send it to Welllington to that forum member that works at Bellamy's...fill all the salt shakers...a sprinkle here and a sprinkle there.

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.

Welcome Woody.

Most of the DOC frontline guys/gals are pretty decent folk and I've always found them helpful. However, they aren't the ones that make the often irrational and stupid policies on pest control. 1080 is a government industry with DOC jobs, poison contractors jobs and other benefactors standing to lose out if 1080 was abolished.

NZ uses about 80% of the world's 1080 supply. No doubt it will be banned one day as it is in most civilized countries and future generations will look back with stunned disbelief that we allowed this to happen to our game animals and other wildlife. It's because of our typical kiwi apathy that the government has been allowed to get away with it's use.

Another local 1080 drop has taken out some stock, the Graff's have become involved which has caused the local Mayor to make a statement in the Waitomo News that he will believe Twig and Tweets line of thought before the likes of the Graff boys.

Originally Posted by tetawa

Another local 1080 drop has taken out some stock, the Graff's have become involved which has caused the local Mayor to make a statement in the Waitomo News that he will believe Twig and Tweets line of thought before the likes of the Graff boys.

That would be a normal response from "a pillar of the community" towards the criminal fraternity.

it costs around $27 to kill one possum,

and 10 kea

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