View a series of short videos on 1080 poison and how it can control the threat of possums.
Watch a video about how 1080 poison has been used once every four years to suppress possums in the Otira forest.
Possums cause massive problems for New Zealand's native species. This video shows periodic use of the biodegradable poison 1080 to kill possums has reversed the decline in snail populations.
View a video about how introduced possums destroy native plants in New Zealand's forests and reduce food sources for native birds.
View a video about how possums, stoats and rats all destroy kea nests, but New Zealand is one of the few countries where biodegradable 1080 poison can be used to control these pests.
In this video freshwater ecologist Dr Alastair Suren describes a series of experiments showing that there are no adverse ecological impacts when biodegradable 1080 possum baits fall in streams.
C.M. King (Ed.), 2005: The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals, Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
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