1080

Tonight

South Coast Environment Centre

Riverton


Film evening and discussion on the use of 1080 in New Zealand.
*Update - that was an interesting evening. Following the showing of an anti-1080 film by the Graf Bros. supplied by Tamsin Scott, an anti-1080 campaigner, the audience enjoyed a vigorous discussion with the two DoC staff who had turned out to represent their project to aerial drop 1080 on parts of the Waitutu forest. The film, incidentally, was sufficiently graphic in its use of footage of dogs, cows and deer dying from ingesting 1080, that one member of the audience had to leave the room. Most surprising to me was the section that showed the 'factory' where the 1080 is produced (somewhere in the United States of America), which looked like a low budget, sleazy P lab! Dodgy! If I was responsible for importing anything at all from an outfit like that I'd be recommending to my boss that we stop!
The evening ended amicably, much to the relief of the rangers but there were many unanswered questions. A further meeting is planned for the near future in Invercargill.
The fire at the Centre, btw, kept us really warm while the temperatures outside were very low and the weather ragged.

In the meantime,

HOW A 1080 POISON AERIAL DROP inspired a positive environmental change