1080 poison helps native parakeets
1080 poison is used to protect birds in New Zealand and to maintain the health of forest ecosystems.
In the Maruia Valley nine parakeet nests were monitored though a 1080 operation designed to suppress a rat plague in November 2009. One nest was eaten by either a rat or a stoat the other eight were fine.
In places where 1080 has not been used to stop rat plagues, entire populations of parakeets have been destroyed by predators.