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10th
MAR

Maori Party wants trapping over poison

Posted by karere under Maori News

 

The Maori Party is calling for a moratorium on use of 1080 for poisoning possums. The Prime Minister says there is no other way to rid some areas of the Australian native. But the party’s conservation spokesman Te Ururoa Flavell disagrees. He says more research needs to be done on the effect of 1080 on waterways. Mr Flavell says the government should run a large scale trapping programme using the unemployed.

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