Kokako appear unharmed
PA Hamilton A test drop of 1080 poison to kill opossums in the Pureora Forest appears to have left unharmed the endangered kokako living there, the Forest Service reports. The drops by helicopter were requested by the Ministry of Agriculture In a bid to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis by opossums invading farmland from the forest
A Forest Service scientist Mr John Innes, said the drops made last Thursday appear to have left kokako untouched — a recent roll call of the birds, using tape recorders, found them still all there in the test zone.
An advantage of the poisoning was that another threat to kokako, opossums, could be kept at very low numbers.
Mr Innes said he was pleased with the results of the drops but the service would continue to monitor future poisonings and possible effects on the birds.,
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Press, 16 July 1986, Page 27
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