Coromandel board votes to ban 1080

[Bounce001]

About time

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10612995

A step in the right direction to a clean, green NZ

[mashman]

Sweet, a friend of mine hates the stuff and has been studying the effects of various "pest" controls, including poisons, poison positioning etc... she'll be weeing in her pants with joy at this new i would think...

[Pussy]

Bugger!
Next they'll ban 2,4,5-T

[Mully]

Umm, serious question...

Is there an alternative to 1080?

And if so, why has this not been adopted previously?

EDIT: I know the article says trapping and so on, but I thought the terrain made that impractical... I understood 1080 was the "best" option for getting rid of possums

Plus, it's only a community board decision anyway.

[Blackbird]

About time

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10612995

A step in the right direction to a clean, green NZ

The chair of the Coromandel-Colville community board is one of my neighbours. Fair to say that she doesn't practice what she preaches, certainly not with respect to the number of noxious plants on her section so it might well be a case of "do as I say, not do as I do".

Like Mully, I'm not sure whether there is an economic alternative as the debate never lets facts get in the way of rhetoric. There was a report in the local rag the other day of just how much native birdlife has sprung back in the area due to 1080 possum control!

[gatch]

Should councils spend the same amount on bounties for possums as they did on 1080, I KNOW that people would make the effort to get em, no matter what the terrain is like, this is a small step, but a positive one.

[Mully]

Should councils spend the same amount on bounties for possums as they did on 1080, I KNOW that people would make the effort to get em, no matter what the terrain is like, this is a small step, but a positive one.

I have lazily wondered about getting dead-loss teen out doing exactly that - give them a sense of purpose and gets rid of possums.

Still, today's teens......

[Hitcher]

A step in the right direction to a clean, green NZ

Rubbish. It's a retrograde step by a bunch of mental drongoes too stupid to even understand what their jurisdictional authority is. Their "ban" is meaningless.

1080 is the only product capable of eradicating possums. Any other means is at best only a way of managing possum populations. If wankers like this community board and their counterparts on the Taupo District Council think otherwise, they're deluded. Worse, they're environmental villains complicit in the degradation of native ecosystems and biodiversity.

There is a big difference between "well intentioned", ignorant and criminally insane. Somebody should vote these bozoes off at next year's local government elections before they start doing other stupid stuff.

[Hitcher]

Sweet, a friend of mine hates the stuff and has been studying the effects of various "pest" controls, including poisons, poison positioning etc... she'll be weeing in her pants with joy at this new i would think...

Has your "friend" discovered a viable option to possum eradication or is she just incontinent?

[gatch]

1080 is the only product capable of eradicating possums. Any other means is at best only a way of managing possum populations.

1080 hasn't succeeded and never will 'eradicate' possums. It may however eradicate what is left of native species which are not so hardy.

Aerial dropping 1080 is just plain criminal as you cannot guarantee where it ends up, and what is going to eat it. If bait stations are used, than surely whoever is maintaining the lines, could maintain a trap line instead, and carry a .223 and a spotlight.

I heard awhile ago, the only reason 1080 was pushed was because the 2 politicians responsible had business interests in the company that manufactures the baits. Although, having done no research into this it is only speculation..

[Headbanger]

.. she'll be weeing in her pants with joy at this news i would think...

Pics????????

[Headbanger]

1080 is the only product capable of eradicating possums. Any other means is at best only a way of managing possum populations.

Have they been eradicated anywhere?

I haven't paid much attention but the last figure I saw was a 70% reduction in numbers in areas that had 1080 dropped on them.

[McJim]

One small step for the hunters one GIANT LEAP for possum kind. Coromandel - your native birds are now officially fucked!


Idiots.

[Oscar]

I heard awhile ago, the only reason 1080 was pushed was because the 2 politicians responsible had business interests in the company that manufactures the baits. Although, having done no research into this it is only speculation..

I note that the absence of any proof hasn't stopped you from repeating what appears to be scurrilous rumour and/or a nutbar conspiracy theory, though.

Good for you

[Motu]

Have they been eradicated anywhere?

Yes,from islands.I don't know if 1080 was initially used,but I personally know possum hunters who were involved in Rangitoto and Motutapu,and they don't hunt possums with 1080....traps and guns are the preferred method.