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No more rats: New Zealand to exterminate all introduced predators
Source: The Guardian
No more rats: New Zealand to exterminate all introduced predators
Possums, stoats and other introduced pests to be killed
in ‘world-first’ extermination programme unveiled by PM
Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin
Monday 25 July 2016 08.05 BST
The New Zealand government has announced a “world-first” project to make the nation predator free by 2050.
The prime minister, John Key, said on Monday it would undertake a radical pest extermination programme – which if successful would be a global first – aiming to wipe out the introduced species of rats, stoats and possums nation-wide in a mere 34 years.
According to the government, introduced species kill 25m native New Zealand birds a year including the iconic ground-dwelling, flightless Kiwi, which die at a rate of 20 a week, and now number fewer than 70,000.
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Existing pest control methods in New Zealand include the controversial and widespread use of 1080 aerial poison drops, trapping and ground baiting, and possum hunting by ground hunters (possum fur has become a vibrant industry in New Zealand, and is used for winter clothing).
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Possums, stoats and other introduced pests to be killed
in ‘world-first’ extermination programme unveiled by PM
Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin
Monday 25 July 2016 08.05 BST
The New Zealand government has announced a “world-first” project to make the nation predator free by 2050.
The prime minister, John Key, said on Monday it would undertake a radical pest extermination programme – which if successful would be a global first – aiming to wipe out the introduced species of rats, stoats and possums nation-wide in a mere 34 years.
According to the government, introduced species kill 25m native New Zealand birds a year including the iconic ground-dwelling, flightless Kiwi, which die at a rate of 20 a week, and now number fewer than 70,000.
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Existing pest control methods in New Zealand include the controversial and widespread use of 1080 aerial poison drops, trapping and ground baiting, and possum hunting by ground hunters (possum fur has become a vibrant industry in New Zealand, and is used for winter clothing).
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/25/no-more-rats-new-zealand-to-exterminate-all-introduced-predators
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