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September 15, 2007

Dog dies after 1080 spread in two parks

Anti-1080 activists have forced the closure of two Wellington parks after the poison was scattered in public areas, killing a pet dog.

How do they know it's anti-1080 activists? Doesn't sound like it would come from a group of people who, I can only guess, like animals???

Kaitoke Regional Park and Tunnel Gully were closed to dogs earlier this week but after one animal was killed, Greater Wellington regional council closed both to the public.

Council officers found the poison pellets in picnic areas and on tracks where the public and their pets could find it.

I'm sorry, but this sounds more like a group of anti dog activists. Let's continue to read the article. I'm commenting while I'm reading...

Meanwhile a second dog's death at Upper Hutt's Trentham Memorial Park is being probed amid fears it may also have been poisoned.

1080 is extremely toxic to humans, causing vomiting, convulsions, and eventually cardiac and respiratory collapse.

Apparently, I heard, in and around the New Plymouth area, 1080 is thought to cause birth deformities...

The closures are the latest of several malicious 1080 incidents, including threats by deer hunters to release dogs in a Tongariro forest kiwi sanctuary this week, where a sign was nailed to a tree reading: "DoC 1080 deer, we will dog your kiwis".

Sheese... fregging arsh es... don't want to swear here... but

I guess they aren't animal lovers like I thought...

Conservation Minister Chris Carter was appalled by the Wellington activists. "I understand there is no way the pellets could have got into those areas without some help from a human hand and I'm appalled and saddened that people who opposed 1080 would go to these lengths to make their point."

But how do they know...? I suppose there's a history ~

The poison's use has sparked controversy. However, after a series of public meetings the Environmental Risk Management Authority ruled last month its use could continue.

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Hugh Barr, from the Deerstalkers Association, said hunters had tried to negotiate with the regional council and Conservation Department to place deer repellent on 1080 pellets in both parks, but felt they had been ignored.

"There's a significant level of frustration in the community," he said.

No shit! It's like, I suppose, terrorist attack, but at a local level.

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1 Comments:

  • At 5:50 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The reason that the hunters who left this sign are threatening such awful action (ie. killing and potentially wiping out localised populations of our endangered native kiwi), is because one of the animals that 1080 kills is deer. I'm not sure that means they necessarily 'like animals'.

    There is so much misinformation out there about 1080 it is mind boggling. For example, did you know that the chemical 1080 is based on a naturally occuring chemical in trees in South America and Australia (which have evolved to keep grazing mammals off them)? Did you know there's 1080 in a cup of tea, or a bag of salt and vinegar chips? Did you know that 1080 naturally breaks down in water?

    Did you know that in areas that aren't managed (either poisoned or trapped), a STAGGERING ninety-five per cent of kiwi chicks will not make it through their first six months of life!?

    Please make sure you find out credible, scientifically peer-reviewed information before adding more confusion to the very emotive 1080 issue. I am a loving dog-owner, and would hate to see my dog poisoned, but i make sure i keep him out of poisoned areas, and i rest easy knowing that our native wildlife is protected from the current slaughter it endures due to introduced pests such as stoats and possums.

     

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