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Environmentalists fear hundreds of birds may have been killed in a 1080 drop in Otago but Department of Conservation (DOC) staff say no such conclusion can be made.
On Monday DOC announced six of 12 monitored kea in the Matukituki Valley, near Wānaka, died following an aerial 1080 predator control operation.
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A Taranaki farming couple are seeing the benefits of predator control after a family of whio, or native blue ducks, took up residence on their land.
Matt and Vanessa Vujcich farm a 100 hectare dry stock farm near Inglewood on the Egmont National Park boundary, which has been the subject wide scale pest management through aerial 1080 and trapping. Six kea have died following an aerial 1080 predator control operation in Otago.
The Department of Conservation is awaiting post-mortem results to determine the cause of the deaths in the Matukituki valley near Wanaka. Predators will be eliminated from a second block on the West Coast and the land defended from new predators without the use of fences.
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