By Kathy White
This is what I have to say about the mega-mast year, and the need to drop more 1080, as profiled in the media recently…
“The Department of Conservation (DOC) is planning its largest predator control programme in response to a ‘mega mast’ event – exceptionally heavy seeding – in New Zealand forests. The $38 million programme will cover about 1 million hectares of conservation land across the country…” (Stuff)
All the following quotes have come from DoC or Landcare Research scientists. If there’s a problem with rats, DoC, OSPRI, regional councils and pest control contractors have no one to blame but themselves for using a pest control method that creates imbalance in the ecosystem and which gives an advantage to the meso-predator that breeds fastest.
Environmental Health Watch NZ 
This is the best I have read sofar. DOC should be dragged over the coals for failing to understand the wider implications of the eco system. I am no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but what I do know, is the fact, that the eco system will balance itself regardless. The morons at DOC should get some form of education at some stage. Perhaps they could be apply for a student loan.
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Exactly Pete, not rocket science is it?
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of interest –
Wild Bee [US] Population Collapses By 90% In New England, Study Warns
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/wild-bee-populations-new-england-collapse-90-study-warns
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90% is an awful lot. 😦 Our bees here been hit too.
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lack of no confidence in any government unit.
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lack of no confidence in any government unit.
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Exactly. THey are all corporations now since Rogernomics basically. Corporations have a profit motive not a people/environment motive. Very sad.
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