“An aerial 1080 drop in the Kāpiti Coast foothills of the Tararua Ranges is planned for next February after being postponed in spring this year.
“Poor weather prevented the possum control operation over 10,900 hectares of bush and forest between Akatarawa Road in Reikorangi and the Ōtaki River prior to the Christmas-New Year period, when the area is popular with recreational users.”
Full article on the Stuff website
The media release from Ospri for the Ministry for Primary Industries follows:
“That balanced biodiversity is still a dream on the mainland, but in the first months of 2018, it will come significantly closer after a TB-free aerial 1080 possum control operation knocks down possums and rats across a large chunk of TB vector risk area – 11,000 hectares of bush and forest along the foothills of the Tararua Ranges, between the Akatarawa Road in the south and the Otaki River in the north. The project area is just north of the settlement…
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