Thread: Warning Distressing and Disturbing Photographs- 1080 Poison

Originally Posted by Rushy

I'd walk that mile down Queen Street to add voice to this issue. Maybe someone on this forum has some experience organising such a demonstration of civil dischord.

It hasnt worked in Auckland in the past. We had a march in Auckland after the Rangitoto/Motutapu brodifacoum drop in 2009 that killed so many seabirds, fish, and marine mammals. It was embarrassing how few turned up.

99% of Aucklanders are so divorced from their roots in the Country that they really wouldnt know a native bird if they saw one nor do they have any interest at all in poisons or where they are being dropped.

It is better if we continue the way we are. Local groups all doing their own thing and all putting pressure on the Government all in their own ways.

Thames Landcare ran a petition here on the Coromandel and had it presented to Parliment along with the West Coasters ...The Then we all appeared before a Parlimentry Select Committee... That trimmed DOC/AHBs feathers for them.

Join a group ...The fastest growing group in New Zealand ..F.A.T.E... Farmers against ten eighty.

The most effective protest still, is all you farmers and town folk put up a dirty big sign on the roadside saying what you think of 1080 The proliferation of all the roadside signs on the West Coast is causing all our tourists to pay real attention to whats going on.

My sign on the Thames Coromandel Highway says,,,,
TARGET THE PEST
NOT THE WHOLE DAMNED ECOSYSTEM.