Hear the truth - Scientists interviewed on NZ's use of 1080

Click here GreenPlanetFM interview with the Whiting-O'Keefes 
to hear the interview with internationally esteemed scientists Pat and Quinn Whiting-O'Keefe talking about the use of 1080 in New Zealand.... 


Originally from Stanford Research Institute and University of California, San Francisco in the USA with a considerable knowledge in chemistry and an expertise in statistical inference in complex systems they have focused recently on the aerial poison drops of 1080 to kill possums.

1080 is called Sodium mono-fluoro-acetate and as a poison like cyanide, is toxic to all air-breathing organisms, but it is not an evil in itself. The problem is with the way DoC the Department of Conservation is using it by blanketing the forest with food laced with 1080 that is attractive to most native and feral animals, everything from worms, beetles, and wetas to wekas and horses.

Clean green New Zealand is unique in the world in its use of aerial 1080. No other country is doing anything remotely similar to this. New Zealand uses over 85% of the world’s supply of 1080, a poison that is toxic to all animals, that is banned or severely restricted in most countries, and that is classified “1A, extremely hazardous” by the World Health Organization.

In response to this, DoC the Department of Conservation asserts that New Zealand is in a unique ecological position, but this is simply not true.