Research
The following research articles are available for download
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Annual Report on the Aerial Use of 1080 For the year ended 31 December 2010
This is the fourth annual report on the aerial use of 1080 since the controls on its use were tightened in 2007.
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Evaluating the use of 1080: Predators, poisons and silent forests
Full Report: Parliamentary Commisoner for the Environment - Evaluating the use of 1080: Predators, poisons and silent forests
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Animal Health Board Annual Research Report 2009-2010
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Declines in common, widespread native birds in a mature temperate forest
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ERMA Decision
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Animal Health Board Research Report 2008-2009
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Waitangi Hearing
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NIWA Stream Monitoring
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Water Sampling for 1080
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Impacts on Taonga Species - Lincoln University
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Effects of 1080 on Invertebrates and Fish
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ERMA Review Appendix E: Monitoring of Environmental Media
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ERMA Annual Report on the Use of Aerial 1080
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Vertebrate pesticide risk assessment by indigenous communities
Lincoln University study published in 'Integrative Zoology' journal
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Uptake of 1080 by Watercress and Puha - Culturally-lmportant Plants used for food
Lincoln University study, Final Report, May 2009
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Consumption of baits containing sodium fluoroacetate (1080) by the New Zealand freshwater crayfish (Paranephrops planifrons)
Native freshwater crayfish (koura: Paranephrops planifrons) were exposed to baits containing sodium fluoroacetate (1080) to determine whether they consumed baits in the presence of other food (detritus and invertebrates), and whether such consumption was lethal.
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Quantifying contamination of streams by 1080 baits, and their fate in water
Forty-eight streams were surveyed during four aerial 1080 operations in New Zealand’s South Island to quantify the number of 1080 baits falling into streams.
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Do toxic baits containing sodium fluroacetate (1080) affect fish and invertebrate communities when they fall into streams?
The ecological effect of 1080 leaching from baits was assessed on freshwater fish and invertebrate communities in four streams using a BACI experimental design.
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