Pest control & some new 1080 videos - Conservation blog
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View a series of short videos on 1080 and its effect on water, flora and fauna. The videos were put together by TrakaBat.
In this video freshwater ecologist Dr Alastair Suren describes a series of experiments showing that there are no adverse ecological impacts when biodegradable 1080 possum baits fall in streams.
Watch a video about how 1080 poison has been used once every four years to suppress possums in the Otira forest.
New Zealand's bats are rapidly heading towards extinction caused by rat plagues. In this video Dr Colin O'Donnell explains how biodegradable 1080 poison protects bats on a scale unmatched by rat trapping.
View a video about how in places where 1080 has not been used to stop rat plagues, entire populations of parakeets have been destroyed by predators.
Find out about a University of Otago research study that found a pre-fed 1080 operation had no negative effect on South Island robins.
Possums cause massive problems for New Zealand's native species. This video shows periodic use of the biodegradable poison 1080 to kill possums has reversed the decline in snail populations.
Whio (blue duck) are in trouble from stoats. In this video threatened species adviser Tim explains how biodegradable 1080 poison can suppress stoats long enough to boost breeding success.
A video about British public relations man Terry Brownbill who came to NZ to do a documentary on 1080. In a interview on TVNZ's Assignment programme Brownbill said the forests are silent. Mr Brownbill was wrong.
In 2009 anti-1080 activist Laurie Collins made headlines by saying that 1080 had turned the Maruia Forest into a green desert. This video explains how he was wrong.
Videos of audio recordings from before and after a 1080 drop at Lake Daniells.
In 2008, the Graf brothers gathered footage for their anti-1080 video, Poisoning Paradise Ecocide in New Zealand, and claimed through the media that a single operation near Nelson Lakes had killed 12,700 birds. They were wrong.
Watch a video about how 1080 activist Phillip Anderton posed for the NZ media in 2004 with a kiwi he claimed had been poisoned by 1080. It was a fake.
This video addresses concerns Māori have about the use of biodegradable 1080 for pest control and provides iwi/hapu with accurate information about how and why 1080 is used in Aotearoa.
View a video about how possums, stoats and rats all destroy kea nests, but New Zealand is one of the few countries where biodegradable 1080 poison can be used to control these pests.
View a video about how introduced possums destroy native plants in New Zealand's forests and reduce food sources for native birds.
In this video monitoring shows that continuous stoat trapping and occasional use of biodegradable 1080 poison has boosted the population of endangered mohua in the Landsborough Valley in South Westland.
Watch this video about how 1080 poison can suppress rats when seed production in New Zealand forests causes rodent irruptions.
TVNZ's Rural Delivery programme explains how DOC and the Animal Health Board use 1080 on the West Coast to prevent damage to native plants and animals and combat TB.
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