NZ First make a play for the anti-1080 crowd in a bid to stay above 5%

By
Martyn Bradbury
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NZ First have made a play to the Anti-1080 fanatics…

We’re expanding predator control methods to reduce the use of 1080.

We’re taking a step in the right direction and this highlights the importance that trapping has as an alternative to poison.

☑️New traps
☑️Surveillance and data tech
☑️Improved predator lures
☑️Remote-sensing tools
☑️More land under predator control

Read more about the announcement below. ⬇️
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12204728

…this is either a response to blunt New Conservative gaining traction or a NZ Fishing Industry suddenly has a new business in shooting possums and stoats.

With NZ First constantly rating under 5%, it even has the Greens feeling brave enough to start murmuring about a post Winston world. When the Greens feel bold enough to start picking on you, that’s a message in itself.

Shane Jones attempt to win Northland will need to be a strategic necessity for NZ First in 2020.

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15 COMMENTS

  1. Sounds like a good idea to me. Some research into a contraceptive that can be fed to the little beasties without unpleasant side effects would seem like a good application for some of it.
    D J S

  2. GO NZF!

    …NZF is the Party of ‘Fish and Game’ who advocate so well for our waterways and lakes and forests and birds

    …’Fish and Game’ are the real New Zealand back country environmentalists

    ( not the so-called greenies who pontificate from their offices and who have never been into the back country to see with their own eyes the devastation of 1080 on kea and other bird life )

    …it is ‘Fish and Game’ who have long been concerned about the ‘Silent Spring’ effects of 1080 …as well as the heroic scientists like ex-DOC scientist Dr. Mike Meads who are unafraid to speak out and dont have vested interests

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixvo1DemwE4

    ….and btw NZF before the last Election had a policy of having a national referendum on 1080…so it is nothing new

  3. If there is a useful alternative to 1080 why not go for it. I don’t think anyone would argue that 1080 is the optimal solution for protecting wildlife and if we can do it better then we should.

    The fact that some of the anti-1080 crowd are somewhat hysterical doesn’t change this reality

      • An alternative to what exactly?
        Has dropping 1080 by air since 1957 halted the decline of native species?
        Certainly aerial 1080 as part of local pest eradication is a useful tool. With sufficient ground based follow up.
        As a rotational “tonic” it has not, can not and will not save our birds.

        What sort of fool wouldn’t want money spent on other options with 1080 known bykill issues(kea, falcon, morepork, weka to name a few) and an increasing proportion of the public sick of being lied to about the negative side of wholesale aerial poisoning.

      • @ Esoteric Pineapples. The reason there isn’t an alternative has more to do with the fact that they haven’t tried to develop one.

        I know this debate is dominated by people taking extreme positions but I’m trying to find some nuance here; 1080 is a bad solution but probably not as bad as doing nothing.

        It seems logical to look for something better but everyone is just digging in further with their entrenched positions, including it would seem the people making the decisions at DOC

    • The last hitch hikers I picked up, aCalifornian couple- millennials -were quizzing me on our use of 1080 ( I contributed “ it is controversial”).
      Clearly others are interested/concerned with what we do here, the food safety impacts of which we have felt before -when 1080 contaminated deer carcasses crashed the venison trade for some years.

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