The Sporting Hunters ' Outdoor Trust published this media release today, claiming Forest & Bird have taken a 'U-turn' on 1080.

Take a look at the facts here , and learn more about the Trust.

A Manuherikia Valley farmer is making a last-ditch effort to rid his land of rabbits by dropping 1080 for the first time in three decades.

Ophir farmer Sam Leask, who owns the Booth Rd farm, said it was the first time a 1080 drop had been done on his land in about 30 years.

Misleading remarks in the media erode public confidence in a pest-control tool we urgently need to save species, writes Nicola Toki, the threatened species ambassador for the Department of Conservation.
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Last Thursday night, Newshub led the 6pm news with a report about 75 kilograms of 1080 pellets being dumped and buried by a contractor to the Department of Conservation on Stewart Island. That was true and extremely disappointing and frustrating for DOC who are now following it up with an investigation and have alerted the Environmental Protection Agency, the Medical Officer of Health and Environment Southland.

The isolated Isles of Aotearoa have given us unique and diverse forests with unique, sometimes lumberingly slow birds.
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It's a delicate ecosystem, with centuries of isolation from land-dwelling mammals making their sudden arrival all the more devastating. The arrival of humans and our pests saw the huia and moa disappear, with the kiwi, the kakapo, the tuatara limping on.

Dog owners are advised to be careful at the Remutaka Range after the completion of a big 1080 poison drop later this month.
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The pallet drop, by OSPRI, will cover about 24,000 hectares along the northern half of the Remutaka Range which backs onto Wainuiomata and runs up the eastern side of the Hutt Valley to the top by Kaitoke.

The sighting of a Wallaby in Dunedin is extremely concerning, the Otago Regional Council says.
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A social media video allegedly showing an adult Bennetts Wallaby near Three Mile Hill was shared via Twitter.
Biosecurity New Zealand reports Wallabies pose a threat to native species and primary industries by damaging native forests, tussock lands and agricultural crops.

It is usually easy for a biology teacher to pick up faked data, especially when it comes from field work. Natural ecosystems may seem like fairly stable places to a student, but when you take short-term or small-scale samples, real data is usually messy.

Two major 1080 operations intended to kill possums and rabbits in the Mackenzie Basin will be under way soon.
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Ospri (formerly TBFree NZ) has contracted excellent Biosecurity to undertake a ground operation of more than 43,000 hectares in the Mackenzie Basin.

The Department of Conservation (DoC) is crediting predator control work for thriving numbers of two bat species and native birds in Fiordland National Park.

Summer monitoring has found numbers of the rare southern short-tailed bat are on the rise in its last remaining stronghold.
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DoC says it shows a mix of trapping, ground-based pesticides and periodic aerial 1080 drops are working.

A charitable trust is 'extremely annoyed' an old photo of dead kiwi is being repurposed by anti-1080 campaigners.

In 2016, the Bay Bush Action Group posted an image on its Facebook page of around 50 dead kiwi that were killed in the Kerikeri region by dogs and cars.
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The image has recently been used by other individuals and groups claiming the birds were killed by the pesticide 1080.