Originally Posted by
Nick-D
I didn't realise I was in charge of pest control development, I'll get right on to it....
Money will be made either way. I really don't see there being some big conspiracy here, shotty management? Probably. Silly drops a to fill budget? Likely. But the people on the ground fighting for our wildlife are good people with a passion for our native flora and fauna.
Seriously though, what are the alternatives? Really the only other even remotely considerable alternative is trapping.
The anti 1080 community is pretty naive when presenting this as a complete replacement imo. The cost and scale of a trapping operation large enough to cover the entirety of our native landscape would be astronomical. It presents so many challenges like cost, terrain, scale and staffing. It's a hard and thankless job being a trapper and ime requires a tough, adaptable and hardworking individual to do effectively. Where are we going to come up with thousands of said indivuals all of a sudden? Who pays for it? How do we train all these people? What does the bush look like with so many trappers living there?
There's no perfect answer here, but the fact remains, if we stop 1080 tomorrow, evidence suggests many of our native species would likely be lost.
I hope I see the day where we have the tech to phase 1080 out or remove predators entirely. As for now it's what we got
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