DoC Drops 1080 Poison into Coromandel Water Supplies

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On the 13th and 14th of September, 2015, the Department of Conservation aerially spread 1080 poison across 23,500 hectares of the Coromandel Peninsula. Enough poison was distributed to kill over 340,000 people.

Dairy farmer Bevin Fox tells how he was provided no alternative water supply while his cows drank water sourced from within the drop zone. "The last poison drop we've had no water supplied at all, we've just been poisoned ... and then, suck it up and see, basically."

Waiomu locals gathered at the local stream to vent their anger. Glen Foster, whose wife Shelwyn is pregnant, said they had received no information. "It's very simple, we've got a twenty one month old baby and one that's due any day now. So that's what we want to find out. What are we facing?"

Many Coromandel locals were drawing water the day of the aerial application, without being notified that the 1080 poison had been dropped a few hundred metres upstream. Click the following link, or copy and past to your browser, to view the video ... https://youtu.be/QbAeUa5ueRg

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