03-19-2013, 07:05 PM
It is like the pest species here in NZ where they have tried all types of eradication programmes over the last 100 years with an emphasis on poisoning and they are all still with us and causing untold damage to our ground resources and to the national income. We have pigs to contend with although not in plague numbers but there is the rabbit that is, especially here in the southern central area of the South Island where they have the great easter bunny hunt each year where there have been over 100k of rabbits taken in some years and even a poor year may produce over 30k. There are possums that have started to kill whole swathes of native forrest and the 1080 poison drop kills indiscriminately with some areas are almost devoid of bird life while the possum still thrives. Deer, goat, tahr, chamois, hare have all been on the eradication atempts that have failed.