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Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:03

Poisonous letter

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Is the anti-1080 campaign taking an ugly turn?

A nay-saying group has threatened to bring down Department of Conservation helicopters if it continues droping the controversial pesticide in Taranaki’s Egmont National Park.

The threat comes a month after the group – New Zealand Hunters – illegally released dozens of sika deer in north Taranaki forests in what DOC believes is retaliation for its dropping 1080.

In a letter to DOC and news media last Tuesday, the group threatened war against the use of the pesticide: “This will be a war like no other; you watch this happen around you.”

Police are investigating.

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