Unfortunately, some greedy Maori elitists from up the East Coast signed a backhander deal with DOC on behalf of the Ngati Porou tribe to allow DOC to indiscreetly spray 1080 pellets all over the Raukumara range which basically encompasses from Opotiki all the way up to the East Coast. The locals were not included in this shady deal as that is their food source for the freezer. Wild pigs, Venison, Fur trapping for possums and harvesting honey from the Manuka and native trees. I have heard some harrowing stories already about 1080 in the streams which a lot of locals use for their drinking water, overspray onto farm pastures Etc. All domestic and wild animals who come in contact with 1080 all die a horrible death. The food chain all the way down from the deer/pig/possum carcass, Pig eats the deer carcass it dies, Native bird life pick on the dead carcasses they die, vertebrae eat what’s left and they die. The bush is left a ghostly silent void. Nothing survives. New Zealand is not a clean green country the Government wants you to believe it is?? This practice needs to stop now.
Unfortunately, some greedy Maori elitists from up the East Coast signed a backhander deal with DOC on behalf of the Ngati Porou tribe to allow DOC to indiscreetly spray 1080 pellets all over the Raukumara range which basically encompasses from Opotiki all the way up to the East Coast. The locals were not included in this shady deal as that is their food source for the freezer. Wild pigs, Venison, Fur trapping for possums and harvesting honey from the Manuka and native trees. I have heard some harrowing stories already about 1080 in the streams which a lot of locals use for their drinking water, overspray onto farm pastures Etc. All domestic and wild animals who come in contact with 1080 all die a horrible death. The food chain all the way down from the deer/pig/possum carcass, Pig eats the deer carcass it dies, Native bird life pick on the dead carcasses they die, vertebrae eat what’s left and they die. The bush is left a ghostly silent void. Nothing survives. New Zealand is not a clean green country the Government wants you to believe it is?? This practice needs to stop now.