'A campaign to stop an aerial baiting programme with the super toxin 1080 has been lost today. As from this today the Hunter Valley Region will be poisoned. Targeted areas will be:
Gloucester
Howse Valley
Singleton
Scone
Middlebrook
This has been sanctioned by the Ppboard. They justify the drops as controlling 'wild dogs' but they bracket dingoes and dogs together – incidentally it is rare now that they say dingo as it seems that putting them under the same banner as dogs justifies their practices. The dingo is actually a native wolf Canis Lupus Dingo. This is a sub-species of wolf NOT dog and is closely related to the pale-footed wolves in asia. By calling this species a dog it offers it less protection and so makes it easier to wipe them out.
It is criminal that the majority of our nation are kept unaware of this situation and/or believe the propaganda that is issued by both the 1080 industry and the CAE (Conservation and Environment).'
This was posted back in May on my Myspace page. The poisoning went ahead unhindered.
How is it that nobody is questioning the use of this poison? Even our mainstream TV and reporters don't tackle the subject but stay very quiet. It should be remembered that this poison has been banned in almost every country for a reason!! There is NO antidote to this poison. A small teaspoon will kill 30 fully grown men, so a child picking up the pretty coloured baits stands no chance. When it was legal to use the baits in USA, it was law that any carcasses of poisoned animals were incinerated due to the known secondary poisoning to other animals from theses carcass. Even kangaroos and other natives are affected and have been witnessed dying a horrifically painful death by ingesting the poison after grazing round dead carcasses where the poisoned animal had vomited. Aerial baiting means lots of these carcasses are left rotting on the ground, posing greater danger to ALL wildlife including our wedgetail eagles and other birds who will feed off the carcasses. One story the company spins is that this is safe to our native wildlife... well if this is so, why then is it used to reduce wallaby and possum numbers in Tasmania and New Zealand?
The next question is WHY is it that the dingo is the only wildlife here in Australia that is given NO protection? Why are they not on the endangered list?
Wake up Australia!.. before it is too late and all we have left is photographs. Peter Garrett needs to be told our feelings on this and questioned on why he appears to have become a traitor to the environmental cause.
LETTER TO MYSELF FROM NIC PAPALIA (WA DINGO ASSOCIATION)
Alison – West Australia uses more 1080 than all the states put together. The powers that be drop 1080 out of planes and have just increased the toxin drops from 4 baits per km to 40 They drop 1080 in pastoral land, non pastoral, aboriginal, and non habited land. It is atrocious and no one has the balls to stand firm on this issue. It is rubbish about 1080 being a natural pea plant that is issued – they never say there is nothing natural about this laboratory made product where toxin is magnified and taste and smell is removed. Most people are gullible and believe anything they are told because sometimes it is easier then to question.
Today has been full on and I am going to down a few ales and hit the sack. Lindy, my dingo, is next to me in the office and the lovely thing although so sad is that she trusts humans so much whilst we are the mongrels that are exterminating her species.
I guess you can understand my frustration with the politicians. Farmers that are on our books with dingoes and a brain that functions use marema dogs with great success and experience no sheep losses. This is in practice in Queensland and works successfully.
There should be NO sheep inside sanctuary locations and reserves. These locations are supposed to be owned by us the Australian public.
1080 is such a massive industry and along with the pastoralist lobby it is a powerful component that promotes the ficticious statistics about sheep loss to dingoes and also the bulldust about how 1080 is a great product and natural!! Check out how that poor dog dies again and tell me that this poison is humane. It is NOT humane. It must be banned!
Thanks mate
Nic
WARNING
Distressing scenes in this video... BUT PLEASE... try and watch as it is VERY important to understand why we should be banning this poison and not quickly enough!!.
THE TRUTH ABOUT 1080 POISONING
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WRITE TO THE MINISTERS BELOW, ESPECIALLY PETER GARRETT AND LET THEM KNOW OF YOUR THOUGHTS!!
Mr Peter Garrett - Federal Minister of Environment
Address: PO Box 249, Maroubra NSW 2035
Phone: (02) 6277 7640
Fax: (02) 6273 6101
Email: Peter.Garrett.MP@aph.gov.au
Mr Gavin Jennings - Victorian Minister of Environment
Address: Level 22, 50 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3002
Phone: (03) 9096 8830
Fax: (03) 9096 8866
Email: gavin.jennings@parliament.vic.gov.au
Mr David Templeman - WA Minister of Environment
Address: 29th Floor, Allendale Square, 77 St Georges
Terrace, Perth WA 6000
Phone: (08) 9220 5050
Fax: (08) 9221 4665
Email: david-templeman@dpc.wa.gov.au
Mr Philip Koperberg - NSW Minister of Environment
Address: PO Box A290, Sydney South NSW 1232
Phone: 9995 6750
Fax: 9995 6654
Email: office@koperberg.minister.nsw.gov.au
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