In 2007, two highly qualified scientists submitted an appraisal to the ERMA review on the use of 1080 poison in New Zealand. Taking over 6 months of their time to complete, WITHOUT remuneration, this work was a gift of great value to New Zealand, and should be acknowledged as such.
If you are interested, or concerned, about the use of 1080 in New Zealand, and would like to engage in the debate with a better understanding of the science supporting its use - then PLEASE click on the link below, and read through these scientists appraisal. But be warned, it is disturbing.......
It was about 2006, when the Department of Conservation informed these two retired scientists, (now naturalised Kiwi's, retired and living on the Coromandel Peninsula),
that aerial 1080 was used in New Zealand forests to control possums.
Up until then, these scientists had little interest in 1080, or how it was used. It was when the DoC agent informed them that 1080 was a species specific poison (killing only possums and rats) that their interest was ignited - as this was an extraordinary claim.
Dr. Quinn Whiting-Okeefe was an Associate Professor at the University of California, and specialised in scientific study design and evaluation.
Dr. Pat Whiting-Okeefe was an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University.
Both Whiting-Okeefe scientists appear in the Poisoning Paradise - Ecocide New Zealand documentary.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK, AND READ THE APPRAISAL......
http://www.kaka1080.co.nz/aerial_monofluoroacetate.pdf
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Good work Graf's, I've just posted the same link - make this report available to as many people as possible.
ReplyDeleteThis is a must read for everyone in DOC, Forest & Bird, AHB, Local Councils, and central government.
ReplyDeleteAnd good on ya Michael Meads for standing by your research, even though the results were not what DoC were paying you for...
Keep up the fight people, keep asking the hard questions until we have some solid answers.
DoC is trying to stamp out the issue with more propaganda
is this the 'report' that singles out scientists Innes and Barker as being un-biased? the same scientists who authored ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TOXIN USE FOR MAMMALIAN PEST CONTROL IN NZ - AN OVERVIEW ?
ReplyDeletecheck this out
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsl1MR1eew
it's all you need to know....everything else is just blah blah blah....
or else go to www.waiheke.tv and check out the links.
typical propoganda from waiheketv...
ReplyDeleteAnd birdscantalk, the Innes and Barker report is highlighted as "less" biased than other DoC-sponsored studies, but that the methodology was more stastically sound with the use of P values and confidence intervals. The O'Keefe's still criticised the study lacking comparitive controls and blinded observers... so I'm not sure what your point is?
And the fact that these same scientists authored ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TOXIN USE FOR MAMMALIAN PEST CONTROL IN NZ - AN OVERVIEW, a study illustrating the ecological consequences of using toxins in our environment, shows that they are willing to look into (and report on) the negative impacts... which obviously would put them out on a limb with DoC and 1080 advocates like yourself, which is why you're probably trying to have a stab.
READ THE REPORT IN FULL
birdscantalk, waiheketv, aliensatemybrain (and yes, they sure have eaten yours),
ReplyDeleteI've checked out your website blog you all continue to reference with great perserverance, and I would love to take the honour of posting some comments on it.
However, that blog appears to have restricted settings to only TEAM MEMBERS (i.e. members of the public, like me, who DO NOT wish to become a "team member" can't make comments).
Seems somewhat biased don't you think?... certainly not a balanced platform for a healthy debate is it!?
I would very much like to place several comments if you were so kind as to uplift the restriction please.
I wunda if you're the mythical 'blinded observer'? the Innes and Barker report you are talking about didn't use P values and confidence levels because it was an eco-system level report ..as it says 'An Overview' when you bother to read it it you will come across this conclusion..."We suggest that large-scale use of toxins continues in NZ ... because research consistently suggests that the harmful effects of pest animals are overwhelmingly greater than those of the toxins used"
ReplyDeleteis this the American report where some 'scientist' rings up 6 mates in New York for a chat about 1080 and this is 'proof' that 1080 bio-diversity strategy is harming our international image? One too many 'blinded observers' don't you think Mr. Environmentalist? (aka hunting and pest meat lobby spokesperson)
ReplyDeletecheck out HEAPS OF PROPAGANDA @
ReplyDeletewww.waiheke.tv
And check out the FACTS @
ReplyDeletewww.ermanz.govt.nz/news-events/focus/1080/hearings/addinfo59.pdf
www.kaka1080.co.nz/aerial_monofluoroacetate.pdf
www.stop1080poison.com
www.enufisenuf.co.nz
www.openureyes.org.nz/blog/?q=node/1359
www.kaka1080.co.nz
www.possumbusters.co.nz/1080-science.html
www.possumbusters.co.nz/1080-fraud.html
www.kaka1080.co.nz/articles_and_posters.html
www.mountainman.co.nz/articles/article/33
SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST THE USE OF AERIAL DUMPS OF 1080
www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ROCKER77&1
Also - www.thegrafboys.org !
ReplyDeleteTrue!
ReplyDeleteAnd also
www.predatordefense.org/1080.htm