1080 protester survives fifth night on Tongariro - Video

If my husband only had a few weeks to live, I would want him to spend the time with me and the family. No matter what his convictions are he should be thinking of us first. There are plenty of healthy people who could take the place of Chris Short.

A true New Zealander who is standing up for what he strongly believes in. Ban 1080! You have our full support Chris. Please Clyde & Steve Graf, get your documentary aired.

If you consider you self an intelligent and rational person then would you not want to know the actual facts before forming an option? If the facts are in conflict with your current option would you stay wilfully ignorant rather than learn what they actually are? If you answer yes to both of those questions then I would suggest typing “The use of 1080 for pest control” into Google for the discussion document on this issue. Each fact or claim is referenced to a list at the back the document for the actual science papers on 1080 from local and international science journals. Happy reading but for a short preview:

The above posts, and most of the time when I hear this issue raised elsewhere, are emotionally charged propaganda which is not based on any form of observable realty rather than verified facts. For example Bill Benfield (, 28 AUG 2009 8:33A.M.) made the claim on this site that 1080 killed insects, however, the LD50 rating for tree weta is 91mg/kgbw, while most mammals it is <1mg/kgbw. This means that on average insects are 91 times more resistant than mammals

The fact is that the area health boards, not DOC, do most of the 1080 poisoning yet it is DOC that gets it in the neck because they poison on land that people use for hunting. This is the issue that needs to be dealt with, DOC’s job is to project the environment, not kill it or protect invasive animals for people to shoot. If hunters come up with an alternative control method that would get the same kill rates of pests in these hunting areas, (at the same cost) we could put this issue to bed. To date no such proposal has been tabled but if there was DOC would take it.

Very sad. A brave act that is dis-creditting the 1080 lobby. Leveraging off a dying person's irational actions will not help their 'cause.

A man with the courage of his convictions. What a rare and wonderful thing.

New Zealands management of its forests and lands with aerial 1080 is certainly cruel, and proabaly more destructive of our rare and endangered fauna. What is more, much of the fauna killed are the insects that break down the forest litter to maintain the soils, and in the end, the trees It is comparable only to abhorrent Japanese whaling programme in it's destructive stupidity.
I salute Chris Short's courage and conviction to his right and proper cause.