Thread: Whataroa kea

Originally Posted by ethos

It’s a gamble. “Best environmental outcome” is right up there with “Net benefit”: unmeasurable of course.
The tagged kea ARE measurable though so fingers crossed they are ok - and all the other untagged uncounted ones.
I’m sure ZIP and DOC very much don’t want to kill kea, Equally with poison drops we know they sometimes do, they average between 12-13% per drop from previous drops where they actually tagged, mostly they don’t count, sometimes they kill en masse ( and blame human interaction, never mind prefeeding them or shooting animals for them)
I’ve not seen a single post hoping for the worst, this just looks shabby.

I agree its shabby theme, but its a theme that exists none the less. I agree with the rest of your post although I'm not aware of Kea being killed en masse and DOC blaming human interaction?