Thread: 1080 KILLING FISH

The way I see it, those that are so for the continued use of air dropping of 1080 with no regard, are simply lazy.
They know the other options available, but are too engrained to see any reason.
It's not a matter of value for money pest control.
If the real reason to do it is for conservation and the protection of rare and endangered native creatures, there should be no consideration of costs.
If TB control is the other reason to continue to drop 1080, how come other countries have managed to get rid of TB by using other methods? And as beef isn't a conservation issue - it's a business, those in that business need to do better to control TB, and pressure needs to be put on them to do just that.

I think most NZ'ders these days have no connection to the bush or the outdoors any more. In becoming so out of touch they don't really care what is being done - so long as it doesn't effect them.
All the nice colourful pictures and videos twig and tweet, DoC and others use to promote their actions, make it easy for people to think everything is all fine and dandy.
Only the likes of the Graff brothers are really doing something to make people aware of the reality. The tactics used to discredit them is shameful imo.

More needs to be done to stop the poisoning of the game animals we all like to hunt/fish for.
More needs to be done to reduce the native fauna and flora being poisoned and killed by introduced predators.
More needs to be done to reduce/eradicate TB.
All this we can agree on I'm sure.
I don't have all the answers and I don't claim to. But I do know we can't continue to rain green poison on everything and hope all will work out.