JACINDA’S MAGIC MONEY TREE – LIST OF 1080 OPERATIONS BELOW
By Carol Sawyer
Never have I seen so many winter aerial 1080 operations as now!
They barely gave themselves a breathing space.
The Dept of Conservation aerially 1080-poisoned 61,000 hectares of the Waitutu Forest and the Princess Mountains, Fiordland, March 11-12, 2020, two weeks before lockdown.
Then, as soon as we went into Level 2, they poisoned the Eglinton Valley, Fiordland. (Started on 19 May; completed on May 25, 2020).
1) Eglinton Valley, Fiordland, 7,842 hectares (last poisoned September, 2019; poisoned again May, 2020)
2) Waikaia Forest, Northern Southland, 7,000 hectares (fourth poisoning in 5.5 years, scheduled June, 2020)
3) Wet Jacket Peninsula, Dusky Sound, Fiordland, 40,000 hectares (never before poisoned)
4) Nelson Lakes National Park, Lake Rotoiti, Mt Robert and the headwaters of Lake Rotoroa, 34,000 hectares (notified by VCS Marlborough, July 1 to August 31, but not yet poisoned)
5) Mt Te Kinga forests, Lake Brunner, West Coast, 3,700 hectares, (notified, RNZ news item 29 May, but not yet poisoned)
6) Punakaiki, West Coast, 43,000 hectares (notified by VCS Greymouth, but not yet poisoned)
7) Buller South, West Coast ( Paparoa Range as well as foothills and Pakihi terraces between the Buller River and Four Mile Road south of Charleston), 18,500 hectares (notified, OSPRI, July 2020)
8) Radiant Range and Mokihinui, West Coast, 72,460 hectares ( notified, OSPRI, July 2020)
TOTAL HECTARES (including Waitutu) = 390,000 hectares and 780 tonnes of 1080 poison baits.
How could I have been so wrong?! I seriously thought a pandemic and its ensuing economic chaos would put an end to aerial 1080 poison. I thought the government might have a last blast but this is something else. Jacinda’s Labour Government has turned 1080 poisoning and trapping into a make-work scheme. The only income this scheme makes is from the TAXPAYER!!!
I think the only thing that will end aerial 1080 poison and this mad desire to kill everything introduced into our forests will be nuclear war.
Photo – Lake Brunner, West Coast, South Island from ‘100% Pure New Zealand’, 🤣,Tourism NZ
Environmental Health Watch NZ 
Yes, they’re really hammering it and the online propaganda machine has geared up too.
A few days back I had an encounter on YT comments on a Kea video with “Professor Emeritus” (real credentials, I checked) Hamish Campbell.
He was highly confrontational and accused me of spreading “pseudoscience lies” so I asked him to provide evidence that I was wrong. He provided links to some pretty hardcore pro-1080 studies and I essentially thanked him politely and proceeded to destroy his evidence point by point.
I then invited him to respond.
He has failed to do so.
I’d call that a ‘win’.
PS this might interest all anti-1080 campaigners:
https://www.newconservative.org.nz/replacing-1080
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Wow excellent Martin!! I’ll have a look. I’m just researching 1080 at the moment too. (And it’s clearly an ‘essential service’ going by DoC’s activities).
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must be members only Martin?
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All this Poison is killing everything, Not just the Native birds, but Everything in the Forest & waterways ?
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Yes it damned well is Dave in spite of all the denials from the liars running the show. Their conservation model among other things is about lining their pockets.
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