Extract from the Social Media Page of "Just Raptors" (below) who have allegedly witnessed the effect of aerial baiting with 1080 poison on Wedge Tailed Eagles, as they were involved in the rescue of a Wedge Tailed Eagle chick, and observed a large number of dead Eagles where 1080 aerial baiting had taken place shortly before. Station owners using 1080 for Aerial Baiting has, it is alleged, caused deaths of Wedge Tailed Eagles. Just Raptors, wildlife carers, are located in Margaret River, a beautiful and pristine area. We also set out below an update on the Truth about 1080 to set aside the lie that 1080 is a safe natural poison. Nothing could be further from the Truth. Thanks to WADA.
Baiting is used to kill feral dogs, or farm dogs, in the area, which is in fact caused by the farmers failure to either desex their dogs or ensure they are not going feral.
In Victoria the Andrews Government, Agriculture Department target Dingoes, a protected species under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act. This also impacts Spot tailed quoll. It is unnecessary as we have shown in past updates, the stock loss to predation by "wild dogs" dingoes, is virtually nil. The numbers published by Department of Agriculture are inflated and misleading. The use of 1080 is unnecessary and is a threat to native wildlife. This renewal must not proceed.
In Victoria, Jaclyn Symes Agriculture Minister with the Andrews Government are about to seek renewal of aerial baiting poison 1080 for another 5 years and to increase those areas from 6 to what we believe to be 12 areas. Please write to her and tell her that this must not take place. Her email address is jaclyn.symes@parliament@vic.gov.au
Her twitter is http://twitter.com/JaclynSymes
"Good morning everyone .
A week ago I received a phone call from another wildlife carer asking if I could take on this baby Wedge Tail Eagle and of course said sure what is the history of her. This is the story of this little now ORPHANED CHICK.
The wonderful owners of a station in the Gascoyne had been watching her from parents tidying the nest to mating to the egg being laid to it hatching and following the progress of her developing. Sadly both of her parents are now deceased due to 1080 poisoning.
I'm sure like myself I didn't realize that this horrendous poison actually KILLS our native animals. I wanted to make sure I got my facts right first before posting this story.1080 is used to control animals like ferel Cats. Foxes. And wild dogs. But it is also eaten by other animals such as
Brown Falcon. Wedge Tail Eagles Bungara ( sorry for incorrect spelling not to mention people pet cats and dogs. The faeces also gets into waterways like Dams creeks through animals that have eaten it or will seep into the soil which then in turn harms our insects and then in turn harms the little native birds ."
Compound 1080 & The truth behind the lies & propaganda..
It has long been purported that the toxin used in baits to kill Dingoes in Australia and other animals such as Possums in New Zealand, is a 'natural' and safe substance 'harvested' from the Gastroloblium Genus of plant, or poison peas, found in South West Australia and a few other
locations around the world. The truth in it's 'discovery', synthesis, initial purpose and manufacture is actually far from the 'natural' 'propaganda' and frighteningly sinister. The Organo-fluorine compound, Fluoro-acetate is indeed found in small quantities in the Gastroloblium genus of plants. Some species of that genus in SW Australia have evolved to be
able to concentrate the substance from low fluorine soils in the region an anti-herbivore metabolite (a bittering agent to deter native animals from grazing) Because of long-standing evolutionary association & metabolic digestive adaptation, 'some' native Australian herbivores such as Brush-tailed possums, bush rats and western grey kangaroos, native to that region in South West Australia, are capable of safely eating plants containing fluoro-acetate, but livestock, other introduced herbivores and indeed herbivorous native species from elsewhere in Australia are
highly-susceptible to the poison. As are all native Australian carnivorous fauna. Fluoro-acetate, is toxic to all aerobic (oxygen breathing) organisms and highly toxic to mammals and insects. The oral dose of fluoro-acetate sufficient to be lethal in humans is 2–10 mg/kg.
After the settlement of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia in 1829, large tracts of land in the South West were cleared for settlement & grazing. It was soon noticed that some stock wer dying after consuming some of the native vegetation, as was also reported in a few other regions in Australia. The culprit was thought to be the Native Pea plants, various species of the Genus, Gastrolobium. In the late 1860's, samples of these plants in various stages of growth were forwarded via the Colonial Secretary to Dr Ferdinand Mueller at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens in Victoria for inspection. Dr Mueller then sent the samples off to Professor Wittstein in Munich, Germany, for chemical analysis.. He requested to Professor Wittstein of the samples, “You probably know that large tracts of the West Australian Colony are valueless as pasture for sheep, Oxen, and horses from the superabundance of this noxious plant and it's cognate species. ….Now it would be interesting to discover wherein the deadly effects of the poison lies.”
MFA (Sodium-Mono-Fluoro-Acetate) 1080 was born as a Weapon of Mass Destruction to silently poison potentially millions of civilians during wartime. Thankfully it was never deployed as such, but there are anecdotal stories of it being tested on civilian populations in NAZI
occupied territories in Eastern Europe. It has been said that Himmler himself deemed it too inhumane and dangerous for his elite SS troops to handle. It is likely that the use of Sodium-Mono- Fluoro-Acetate was not pursued for the extermination of populations in occupied eastern Europe
because it was not efficient enough in that the time from ingestion to death took too long. A much quicker & efficient final solution was devised eventually.
By the end of the war several countries including England, the United States, Poland, and Germany had developed efficient pilot-plant methods for the preparation of MFA.
After WWII, with no immediate potential use as a chemical warfare agent, the USA's department of Agriculture & Food developed and produced the highly concentrated compound, (now known as
Compound 1080 [Ten-Eighty] because of it's production catalogue number) as a pesticide & predacide primarily to combat rodents. It was also found to be an effective and potent killer of Coyotes and Wolves. (Patent held by Monsanto until transferred to Tull Chemicals in Alabama in 1955) A willing & open market was soon found in Australia to Kill Dingoes, previously killed by unrestricted & liberal use of Strychnine. With dozens of accidental deaths, murders & suicides every year in Australia attributed to Strychnine poison, Ten-Eighty (1080) was quickly adopted and marketed as the 'safe & natural' alternative. The spin and propaganda to sell to the Australian market was that 1080 was a natural poison derived from native Australian plants and would not
harm the native fauna. Although the Spin to the New Zealand market was contradictory as it was marketed there to specifically kill native Australian possums that had become invasive after introduction to provide a Pelt & Fur industry with stock.
1080 Sodium-Mono-Fluoro-Acetate has been banned widely worldwide, including its country of manufacture, the USA, because of it's inhumane nature of death, acute toxicity, environmental impact and potential threat to human life. Australia & New Zealand import 95% of production and
there is a vast stockpile held by Tull Chemicals in Alabama. Australians have long been duped by the spin and propaganda of this toxin's supposed natural innocent origin and immunity of Australian wildlife. Even government bodies in Australia still spout rubbish that 1080 is 'harvested' from the native pea. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The artificially synthesised, concentrated & manufactured toxin was born of War to silently kill humans in their thousands by secreting it into their drinking water.
WA Dingo Association.