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Bingo, gold star right there.

No, you need a number it seems.

Anecdotally?

My comparison to the wild venison market was that even with big pressure and big private enterprise the deer endured.
Possums and rats are no different and I would also challenge anecdotal evidence...

Yes, Brodifacoum was used and aerially applied for the Brook Sanctuary.
As have most other of the offshore predator free islands.

That was kind of my point earlier, they get a far heavier initial and follow up dose at their inception, with no obvious long term negative effects.
Also with a far more persistent toxins than...

Wouldn’t have a clue, hazard a guess at 4 or five years?

How would you put and individual or crew into the Karamea bend, mobilise and sustain the operation for $65/ Ha?

Where are the areas immune to declining native species without poisoning?

You know as well as I do there is no point in repeat poisoning if there are no predators.

But not as continual as predation.
But I guess that is part of the complexity of this debate as sometimes the driver is TB control and sometimes it is conservation.
My overriding opinion is that...

Exactly. Money talks.
The deers wars came and went. Now deer numbers steadily increase without the same magnitude of pressure from private enterprise as cost, compliance and complexity increase and...

In regard to possums only: rather than just keep numbers down, bureaucrats and bean counters can opt for aerial application that can approach and sometimes achieve statistical 100% kills. Post...