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Another dead deer

 

http://thegrafboys.blogspot.co.nz/2010_06_01_archive.html

 

A bait clearly still in tact 10 days after the aerial drop in this forestry.

 

1080 in a stream

 

A dead horse from 1080 poisoning

 

Dead birds killed from 1080 found in a fresh 1080 drop area

 

 

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An interesting article on the effects on humans in South Africa by Chris Mercer, c. 2012:

The Facts about Compound 1080

1. The FBI in USA has issued a Terror Alert on this substance. One teaspoon can kill up to a hundred people;it looks like castor sugar and is easily soluble in water. It is tasteless, and there is no antidote. Apart from the Nazi experiments, at least 13 humans have been killed by Compound 1080 accidents and use as a murder weapon. Three children were killed in an Oklahoma City incident in which Compound 1080 was spread on vanilla wafers. In fact, it is the perfect murder weapon, virtually undetectable in a third world environment and killing with certainty, leaving a corpse with a probable post-mortem diagnosis of ‘Heart Attack’ as the cause of death. The presence of this poison in SA in an age of inter-societal tensions and terrorism is a threat to national security. One tablespoon could wipe out all of Parliament.

2. The poison was developed by the Nazis, tested horrifyingly on Jews and dissidents, and then rejected for Death Camp use because it was too dangerous for death camp staff to handle.

3. It was banned from general use in USA in 1972, after a number of human deaths and the wiping out of non-target species in coyote control. A former USA Environmental Protection Agency Administrator described 1080 as 'one of the most dangerous toxins known to man.'

4. Death by1080 poison is exceptionally painful and lingering, taking many hours and even days of spasms and convulsions before death from respiratory or cardiac failure.

5. Farm workers exposed to 1080 over a period of time can suffer extreme pain and disability merely by contact with the poison - even if they do not ingest it.

 

https://plus.google.com/+ChrisMercercannedlion/posts/A25yFmbAXnT

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1080 drop gone wrong...in a waterway no less

 

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Facebook: " NO to 1080 use in NZ "  https://www.facebook.com/1080PetitionNZ

 

 

 

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/107/869/458/stop-1080-killing-new-zealands-future-clean-green-image/#sign

 

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http://www.newzealandboarhunter.bigcartel.com/product/ban-1080-in-nz-t-shirt-fundraiser

 

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Money talks,some powerful people must be cleaning up over this disgrace,hard to believe this is still going on......I picked up a penguin with a broken wing at mangawhai,contacted DOC and they told me to put it back on the sand to die,i gave it to a couple and their two kids on a kayak who took it to the vet,couldn't do it

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Hope you don`t mind me posting this here Hedley ........

 

 

http://www.indymedia.org.nz/articles/2334

 

 

by Anonymous

Wednesday, 26th March 2014

War & Militarism

colonialism, massey

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An example of how academia and the military are united in promoting war and colonialism.

Universities aren’t what they used to be – or supposed to have been. A long time ago, they were supposed to be places of critical thinking and academic freedom, a place where the status quo could be challenged. The wider society considered this a good thing to have, and consequently, universities were publicly funded and students were given allowances to be able to attend.

With the arrival of the neoliberal agenda in the mid 80s, all this changed and today, universities are businesses like any other. They charge ‘market rate’ fees in return for slightly improved career chances for the individual attending. The thinking within academia has changed accordingly. Recently, the academic representation on the board of Victoria University refrained from having their say in the ‘roadmap’ for the university, saying that those are business decisions that should be left to business people. Suum cuique.

Nevertheless, there are always surprises as to how much the thinking has changed. In April, the Massey University Alumni Association will be hosting a series of events to celebrate the life of David Livingstone.

Invitation - David Livingstone

Africa’s Greatest Explorer The Man, the Missionary and the Myth - By Colonel Paul Bayly FRGS

What a headline! Almost every noun a negative: explorer, man, missionary, myth. But it gets better:

You and your guest are invited to join us to hear Colonel Paul Bayly FRGS talk about the life and legacy of Dr David Livingstone. The event will be followed by the launch of his book on the great explorer.

Dr Livingstone covered over 29,000 miles across Southern Africa, and opened up approximately one million square miles of uncharted territory. To this day it is considered one of the toughest series of expeditions ever undertaken. Dr Livingstone was strongly supported by Sir George Grey, Governor of both New Zealand and Cape Colony (South Africa)

Those who thought that this blatant kind of colonial language had disappeared from the modern vocabulary are being proven wrong. Opening up “uncharted territory” - a term that wrongly suggests that the land was also uninhabited - means nothing else but surveying it, carving it up and making it available for Europeans to exploit. Livingstone’s expeditions started the “Scramble for Africa”, the beginning of more than 150 years of misery for people living on a continent that is rich in all kinds of resources. Millions of Africans who live in abject poverty today will be thanking Livingstone.

Opening up uncharted territory also involved building what he called “God’s Highway” - a 1500 mile road that was supposed to bring “Christianity and civilization” to Africa. To be fair, he did also crusade against the slave trade.

But Livingstone’s own claims exemplify his colonial attitude, in which only Europeans and their thinking count. He claimed to have discovered the Victoria Falls in 1855. Discovering usually means being the first human to see something, but not so for Livingstone. The truth is, the local people already had their own name for the falls (which he conveniently ignored) and they led Livingstone to the site. He didn’t discover the falls at all, he gave them an English name.

Of course, opening up uncharted territory is exactly what happened in Aotearoa at the same time, and it is therefore no surprise that Governor Grey supported Livingstone. In Africa and Aotearoa, then and now, it is the combination of profit driven business and military power that moves the colonial project forward. Who could therefore be better suited to writing Livingstone’s biography than a retired NZ colonel, who is a partner in an investment banking company that specialises in mergers and acquisitions. Exactly why Bayly thought it necessary to write yet another book on Livingstone is unclear – a search for the name on amazon yields 4012 hits.

But the links between university, business and the military go even further here. The invite to the book launch finishes with this open threat:

All proceeds from the evening will support the Centenary History Programme - The Centenary History Programme is a partnership between Massey University, the New Zealand Defence Force, The RNZRSA and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to produce the first definitive written history of New Zealand’s experience of the First World War.

The circle completes - the proceeds of the glorification of colonialism go to a project that glorifies war, funded by the colonial government. This is what academic freedom looks like in the year 2014. I suspect we will see a lot more of it once the “Centenary History Programme” gets in full swing.

Book launch dates:
Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tuesday April 8
The Boatshed Wellington - Wednesday April 9
Te Manawa Palmerston North - Thursday April 10

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Disabled Liberation Aotearoa NZ DLANZ

About 16 hours ago

able bodied / disabled maaroherohe / hauaa in solidarity and best wishes

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Ep 1 - 1080 Poison in New Zealand - Interview with Clyde Graf

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thehuntingshow/2014/03/24/ep-1--1080-poison-in-new-zealand--interview-with-clyde-graf

 

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National Govt.(Doc) hell bent on dropping 1080 into our forest.....All they have to do is drop Krusher Collins and are few other Nats MP`s in the bush...That`ll clear the forest of ALL pest!!!

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NO to 1080 use in NZ

 

Peninsula Project Update
By John Veysey

 

On a recent visit to Whitianga the Prime Minister was reported as saying : "..without aerial (poison) drops as they happen at the moment, there's a real risk that parts of New Zealand will lose their entire kiwi and native bird populations.."
Protesters were on hand to remind John Key that, on the Coromandel, we are observing that the exact opposite appears to be true. "If aerial poison drops continue as they happen at the moment, there's a real risk that parts of New Zealand will lose their entire kiwi and native bird populations."

 

There has been a noticeable disappearance of many bird species after the 2013 1080 drops on the Coromandel. Raptor lovers were the first to notice a decline in raptor numbers. A number of falcon pairs being watched before the drops have not been seen since and it is uncertain just how many, if any, falcon still survive on the peninsula.
In previous counts of kiwi on Mt Moehau, the listeners had trouble hearing the Kiwi because of the barrage of morepork calling. Only a week after the June 2013 drop that morepork sound had virtually disappeared. The 1080 had sorted out that problem.
DOC are well aware of this morepork disappearance and steadfastly refused to monitor any birds, even the introduced robins, before the drop, knowing that a similar disappearance to that of the morepork would likely show up.
These bird disappearances are being noted all across New Zealand. People talk of the silence after one of the government's poisoning operations. It may be a ground-based distribution of Talon or Pestoff; some kind of rat poison which creeps into the food chain and accumulates in the survivors. It may be an aerial drop of 1080. The silence is the same and it is noticeable.
Many of the native birds which DOC accepts will die as a result of their poisoning are not quick breeders: the morepork, the kea, the weka, the hawk and falcon. DOC's talk of quick recovery after poisoning for any of these species is nonsense.
The way that the 2013 1080 operations were handled has exposed us on the Coromandel to a blasé DOC staff showing complete disregard for the concerns of neighbouring dwellers and the complete absence of oversight by any of the policing bodies such as the Health Department, the Environment Protection Authority or any other government department.
Gone were all the supposed "consents" processes we were accorded in previous operations, gone all the usual arguments of a dangerously high possum count, gone was any recognition of the years of work already in place on the ground at Moehau, gone was any pretence that these aerial 1080 operations were necessary from any environmental point of view. A completely new staff introduced us to a completely new and disinterested way of doing things.
With the prospect of returning much land to Maori it seems we have a government bent on poisoning as much of it as possible before the land transfer takes place. Perhaps, if the government has time, they can open up some mines in there as well.

 

 

Chris Windley We have been using 1080 throughout N.Z. for over 30 years, and we still have a problem with introduced species. A definition of Insanity is-"Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result" All governments have followed the same poisoning methods all these years and have got nowhere. The only time possum numbers were reduced to really low numbers is when there was a 50c bounty on them, back in the 1950's, and everyone chased them to make a very good living, or extra cash, It's time that bounty scheme was brought back in - but at a much higher level - they say it costs around $25/possum kill, when using helicopters and 1080 - pay that for a set of ears or tail and you will see possums almost wiped out within 12 months! Add a $500 bounty for every stoat killed, and people will specialize in trapping them, and they will almost vanish too - it's time to change!!!

 

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/107/869/458/stop-1080-killing-new-zealands-future-clean-green-image/#sign

 

STOP 1080 KILLING NEW ZEALAND'S FUTURE (CLEAN GREEN IMAGE)

• author: Ciaran
• target: People of New Zealand
• signatures: 2,720

2,720

50,000

we've got 2,720 signatures, help us get to 50,000

People of New Zealand to have a voice about banning the lethal 1080 poison. Politicians and the Goverment are not listening to the people of New Zealand. 1080 is used to eradicate pests and also killing native birds and forest life, aswell as killing protected species. Please Watch the video "Poisoning Paradise"

https://www.facebook.com/1080PetitionNZ?ref=br_tf

 

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This is what they want to drop over Stewart Island. She how it is effecting this ecosystem. http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-rat-poison-20140418,0,7729549.story#axzz2z7uFFJZg

 

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Do our politicians have shares in the companies making this crap?

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/107/869/458/stop-1080-killing-new-zealands-future-clean-green-image/#sign

 

STOP 1080 KILLING NEW ZEALAND'S FUTURE (CLEAN GREEN IMAGE)

• author: Ciaran
• target: People of New Zealand
• signatures: 2,720

2,720

50,000

we've got 2,720 signatures, help us get to 50,000

People of New Zealand to have a voice about banning the lethal 1080 poison. Politicians and the Goverment are not listening to the people of New Zealand. 1080 is used to eradicate pests and also killing native birds and forest life, aswell as killing protected species. Please Watch the video "Poisoning Paradise"

https://www.facebook.com/1080PetitionNZ?ref=br_tf

 

 

Done!

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Campaign To Have 1080 Removed From Use in Australia

 

http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/articles/article-display/campaign-to-have-1080-removed-from-use-in-australia,34002#.U18ZZqJZqSq

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'Battle for the Birds' is the rallying cry for promoters of 1080 use. NZ government (the manufacturer of 1080 and other animal poisons) proclaims 1080 is needed to save birds from extinction. Yet 1080 is a deadly avian poison. As 'more 1080, more often' is used, and more species reach critical states, the increasing bird 'loss' is used for justification for yet more 1080. "Birds bounce back" the public is told. But really, isn't what 'bounces' the best the most fecund species like rats (known to increase in number 3 to 10 times following many 1080 drops). Here is a reflective piece regarding this battle, submitted by Paws contributer Janice Schofield Eaton.

Battle for the Birds

The battle for the birds is a strange one. Those who want to drop bird poison on birds - versus those who seek environmentally safe humane animal management.
We, the latter, are called anti because we opt out of 1080.

And yet we are strongly PRO:
Pro: humanity to all animals
Pro: the rights to safe environment for kids, dogs and pets
Pro : the rights to safe recreational areas
Pro: the rights to safe pastures for stock
Pro: rivers and watersheds free of toxic carcasses breeding E coli.
Pro: the rights of New Zealanders to responsibly hunt clean game to feed our families.

And because we stand strongly for these rights, we're publicly and privately called names:
crazies
ignorant hippies
stupid organic lifestylers
feral inbreds.
Idiots.

And yet,… we are teachers, councillors, physicians, scientists, farmers, businessmen, bushmen, birders, hunters, pharmacists, keen lovers and observers of nature…
We are Maori, Pakeha, immigrants, and concerned friends around the world.

We are grandparents rising from retirement because we grieve the loss of the birds, the waste of the game, the poisoning of the bugs so necessary for forest health.
We nanas and granddads wade through research and write until 3 in the morning because we worry about the world our grandkids will inherit.
And because we remember …. what freedom was like in New Zealand in the days before 1080.

We remember… when New Zealanders churned possums into tucker for dogs, and sleek skins to fatten the wallet;
and deer had no poisons and became food for the world.
We remember when rabbits were winter stew. and wild pigs became hams.
And introduced animal populations were held in check by thousands of bush savvy New Zealanders.

And amongst all these critters, all these exotic animals where we lived, the native birds were singing their hearts out in the forest and breeding prolifically;
sometimes a hundred tuis in a tiny patch of bush, teamed with a symphony of bellbirds. We'd pause our work and bliss in the deafening crescendo.

Memory of this chorus stirs action. Thus we choose writing letters over retirement. We organise meetings. We rally others toto rise for human rights, to speak for animal rights, and to campaign for the rights of nature- and the rights of our birds to a non-toxic forest.

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paws-4-a-Cause-NZ/710072042346962?fref=ts

 

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65 DOG DEATHS PER YEAR DUE TO 1080. ( that is only the reported total from vets not the ones that are put down or die before going to a vet, so over a hundred dogs per year). If we look at DoC's figures they say only a handful of dogs have died from 1080 ever. 60 years of 1080 killing a hundred dogs per year 6000 dogs dead. WHY DO YOU LIE TO US DOC ????????

 

http://www.1080science.co.nz/pressreleasedogspoisoned.html

 

 

This is one of stories and how it was dealt with by the people that spread it. Please be aware, this is a very graphic description but it is played out over 100 times every year and over 6000 times in the last 60 years.

 

Since buying a rural block of land, we’ve been subjected to three aerial drops of 1080 on nearby and neighbouring land. We’ve lost pets and stock to each drop, been bullied and threatened by the pest control supervisors – all reported at the time to the company responsible and also included in a submission to the ERMA … – not to mention having had to collect and bury the corpses of all the dead birds we find in our paddocks in the months following each drop. However, the worst drop for us by far was in 2003. A large number of dogs in the area were poisoned that year and we lost three. At that time I was still relatively naïve concerning 1080 and when I was told by the pest control people that my dogs would be safe if kept on our land I believed them. Within a couple of weeks of the drop, I came home from school pick up to find Bessie (an aged working collie whom we had rescued from the pound) and Whitby (a young collie we had taken in as a pup from a neighbouring farmer who was threatening to shoot him and his litter-mates) very unsettled, panting hard and seeming disorientated. They rapidly became acutely distressed: growling, whining and snapping at themselves, then taking off under the house and thrashing about. It was at this stage I realised that they must have been poisoned but, even if I had been able to crawl under the house (I was pregnant at the time) and carry them out and into the truck without getting bitten, the nearest vets is a good 40 minutes drive away and they would have been dead before we got there. And so the kids and I were forced to listen to our pets howl and scream in pain as they convulsed and died.

I managed to get hold of the guy in charge of the poison operation the next morning. He pretended to be sympathetic, claiming it was a rare and very unfortunate accident, and that perhaps a hawk had flown out of the drop zone with a piece of poisoned corpse and dropped it into our paddocks, where our dogs had then found it. He said the chances of it happening again were non-existent.

After burying our pets and mourning them, a month or so later we decided to adopt a tiny puppy from the SPCA as company for our sole remaining dog, Lola, who was missing her murdered playmates as much as we were. Although we had been re-assured it would not happen again, we took the extra precautions of no longer walking our dogs in our paddocks or forestry – either driving them down to the beach or restricting them to the front garden. If I had to go out without the dogs, I would chain them so they couldn’t wander down to our paddocks. Our new puppy, Jess, was dead within weeks. I came home from school pick up (having left her chained to the shed) to find her barking and snapping at her belly. She was in such distress that it took me nearly five minutes to unchain her and when I did she immediately raced off under the house. She died soon after, screaming horribly as she passed.

I rang the boss that afternoon, screaming down the phone at the boss what had just happened and threatening him with the media. He drove straight out, apologizing profusely, and explaining that there had been a number of problems with the drop – the public had not been adequately notified or informed of the risks, and he had already received reports of at least 10 other dogs having been poisoned locally. Contrary to what he had previously told me, he then explained that sometimes mammals and birds poisoned by 1080 could travel a great distance before finally succumbing to the poison, and that obviously a poisoned rat or something had run onto our land and under our garden shed to die and for Jess to eat. He promised to send me staff out to comb our land for poisoned corpses the next day and to bring me a muzzle for our sole remaining dog.

When the guys turned up next morning and I told them what their boss had said, they told me that it was bulls**t and he knew it. They said any creature within a 30k radius of the drop zone, which would pick up or consume poisoned meat/corpses, was at serious risk and that (again contrary to what their boss had told me) it could take up to a year for the poisoned corpses of possums, birds etc. to decompose adequately/no longer pose a threat to scavengers.

As postscript, a few years later, when I was unfortunate enough to again have dealings with the {pest management boss} and reminded him of the pets we had already lost to his poison operations, plus the other 10 dogs he had quoted me as having died from the 2003 Akatore drop, he blithely informed me that actually that number had been revised to 24+!
1080 is not humane, it kills agonizingly and it keeps killing; it is not targeted, it kills not only other mammals but also the very birds the poisoners claim to be protecting; 1080 is not safe to humans, whilst the short term effects are serious enough, the long-term effects are still worringly unknown; 1080 is a class 1 toxin and its use should be outlawed, there is simply no need for it.

story by Michelle, Taieri Mouth

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please sign this online petition., it's a tiny little thing to do..and will take only one minute [and this vehicle is safe!]

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1080 poison is dropped by helicopters directly into New Zealand forests and streams, to kill possums and rats. However, the poison also kills farm stock ...

 

 

http://youtu.be/BfCRaeiw_BM