Dichapetalum cymosum

pesticides, cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), phosphorus, pindone and brodifacoum, are even less successful then cyanide in comparison to 1080. Phosphorus has no antidote and is considered inhumane, causing painful deaths to animals. Cholecalciferol is expensive and secondary risks are unknown. Brodifacoum is a slow working pesticide taking 1-2 weeks to kill pests and persists in the environment. Pindone is even slower working taking 2-3 weeks to kill poisoned pests and persists moderately in the environment

1080 is arguably New Zealand’s largest environmental debate dating back to the first time was widely used in New Zealand back in 1957. 1080 is the shortened name for Sodium Fluoroacetate and is a poison that is mixed into baits that are then used to control a large range of introduced pests like possums, stoats and rats in New Zealand. Without controlling these pests the New Zealand native bush and native species would be decimated. 1080 is a very effective poison and it is reported by The Department