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we photographed a native Weka (a chicken-sized ground-dwelling bird) feeding on a brushy-tailed possum carcass. This immediately set off alarm bells because any dead animal, bird or insect killed by the poison is toxic to any other animal, bird or insect that eats it. This chain reaction is called Secondary Poisoning. Prior to that, we had been unaware that native ground-dwelling birds consumed animal carcasses. It was a disturbing observation, and clearly demonstrated that the aerial spreading of 1080 (a poison which causes a slow death from cardiac failure or respiratory arrest) or other poisons into New Zealands forests was irresponsible, to say the least. - quote
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 07:27:11 +0000

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