interesting dolphins, penguins and birds now. lets find out what the problem really is
Samples should be taken from every species of dead animal that has washed up on the shores of the Gulf since the islands were bombed with poisons. Those samples should be sent to independent, off-shore labs for testing. No one trusts Doc it's both poacher and gamekeeper. It's time for the government to put a stop to the poisoning of NZ's environment and look for more environmentally friendly ways to control pests.
Sarah Silverstar is a resident of Waiheke Island and is studying for her Masters in Marine Ecology. She has a very informative website www.oceanaware.info and is currently raising funds to send penguins offshore to have them independently tested (DoC have offered to test them for her surprise surprise!) Please support her by sending her website to as many people as you know. Brodificoum is dreadful stuff. Sarah writes about kiwi chicks being found dead with Brodificoum residues 18 months after a drop....this has to stop!!
I have recently seen the latest version of the Graf boys DVD - "Poisoning Paradise, Ecocide NZ". This is an incredible film and needs to be seen by all of NZ. Please call/email TV3 and ask that they show it. "it is all about the ratings". Enough requests and they will air it!!
Letting DoC be involved in collecting samples and getting them tested leaves the process wide open to abuse. These deaths have been going on too long, and the scale of them is horrendous. Brodificoum is an obvious choice for testing for the rest of us, but it needs to be done independently. There are vested interests involved that must not be allowed to cover up what is actually happening. Our environment is more important than policy and political correctness. We need some old fashioned honesty now.
DoC doing the testing on the dead dolphins is like is like giving the poacher the job of gamekeeper. So much stuff that this organisation puts out has been given their own brand of spin that quite frankly I hold no confidence that they will undertake an unbiased and impartial investigation. The fact that brodificume is suspect in the dolphin deaths is testiment to the lax way this organisation goes about it's poisoning operations. It is totally unaceptable that this toxic poison should have been showered from a moving aircraft to the point that much of it has ended up in the sea anyway. So much for the spin they put out that with GPS they can target this stuff and keep it out of our waterways. So much also to their claim that aerially applied poisons (1080 included) are only used in inaccessable terrain. There are few places more accessable than Rangitoto Island.
