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Wellington: Tross Publishing, 2011. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. For what was probably millions of years New Zealand was the last isolated fragment of the great southern continent, Gondwana. And then came the impact of man. The first wave was the colonisation by Maori around eight hundred years ago, resulting in mass extinction of forest browsing birds like the moa. This brought about profound changes to the land. The second wave was European arrivals, starting around two hundred years ago, which led to a whole new eco-system being transferred on to the remnants of the old. It too wrought profound changes on the land. The third wave was started by one man, Leonard Cockayne, whose obsession with browse led to a romantic desire to re-create a pristine world that had, in fact never existed. Cocayne's deeply flawed model had been powered by state bureaucracies eager to extend their departmental authority. In the beginning it was a war against deer,…
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viii, 180pp. includes References & Index. Colour illustrations. The author discusses the use of 1080 poison arguing that its use is based on a deeply flawed model to re-create a pristine world that had never really existed.
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- Keywords New Zealand possum extermination 1080 poison
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