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Kea could learn to detect 1080 poison to keep them safe

19/10/2020

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A discovery that kea might be able to learn to detect toxic 1080 bait by how it looks could be a breakthrough in teaching them not to eat it.

The controversial poison is used widely to control pests on conservation land, but it also killed non-targeted animals and birds - including, sometimes, the endangered kea.

New research showed that an additive that made it "shiny", or that appealed to the parrot's ability to see ultraviolet colour, might be the tool needed to teach the curious alpine parrots to avoid the toxic pellets.
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Kea Conservation Trust patron Peter Hillary said the discovery was timely.



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Integrated Pest Management lessons from the quest to contain NZ's worst vertebrate pest

23/6/2020

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Published by the Entomological Society of America
By Ravneel Chand and Belinda Cridge, Ph.D.

Editor’s Note: Here at Entomology Today, integrated pest management is a vital subject, though one usually examined through its application to insect and arthropod pests. But IPM is a framework for management of all kinds of pests, and the Entomological Society of America’s Journal of Integrated Pest Management welcomes research from beyond the confines of entomology. Today we share a look at a new case study in JIPM on brushtail possums, a major pest in New Zealand, and state of IPM approaches toward it.


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Calls for pest control measures to protect Aotearoa's largest rātā tree

8/6/2020

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There are calls for pest control measures to stop possums from attacking the large tree and other giant rātā in the Akatarawa Forest, in Wellington.


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Kea deaths during Otago 1080 operation 'pretty predictable' - DOC staffer

1/6/2020

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The deaths of six kea following a 1080 drop in Otago were the result of a "perfect storm", internal documents reveal.

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Environmentalists fear hundreds of kea have died, DOC says 1080 is saving them

3/3/2020

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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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Native whio blue ducks spread wings outside Egmont National Park to farmland

3/3/2020

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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.

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Holding land once NZ predators are gone

2/3/2020

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​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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More whio found in Dart River catchment

21/1/2020

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There  is more good news about the number of whio or blue ducks living in Fiordland, after a possible record number were found on another tributary of the Dart River.

Department of Conservation contractor Paul Van Klink and his conservation dog Hoki conducted a survey of whio on the Routeburn a week ago.

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Questions raised over Westport rat 1080 results

27/11/2019

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Results released over the weekend of independent testing of some of the carcasses found in Westport have done little to solve the mystery of what killed over 600 rats

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OSPRI & deer hunters butt heads on 1080

21/11/2019

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​The NZ Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) has made incorrect and misleading claims on aerial possum control operations, claims OSPRI.

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