Tagit wrote: Interesting report in todays Herald. Doc's monitoring shows that they are getting a 12% kill rate of Kea where they drop 1080. Initial reading says that only 24 Kea were killed over several years, but read a bit more and that is 24 out of 199 that were being monitored which is just a bit more than a 12% kill rate. So highly endangered population of a bird that lives no where else in the world and DOC claim that a 12% population kill rate is OK because 1080 is cheap. The fine for killing a Kea is $100k or 6 months, so we obviously put a very high value on protecting them. What this says is that the value isn't quite as high if it is DOC funds being spent I guess. |
Tagit wrote: Not quite sure of how that comparison works? Most people down here see the Leopard Seal as an attraction rather than a real menace. He/she did eyeball me as I was walking along the marina one day but I don't really think of it as a serious threat. Fun to watch it catching sea gulls though. National Geographic stuff in your work place. |
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