A nay-saying group has threatened to bring down Department of Conservation helicopters if it continues droping the controversial pesticide in Taranaki’s Egmont National Park.
The threat comes a month after the group – New Zealand Hunters – illegally released dozens of sika deer in north Taranaki forests in what DOC believes is retaliation for its dropping 1080.
In a letter to DOC and news media last Tuesday, the group threatened war against the use of the pesticide: “This will be a war like no other; you watch this happen around you.”
Police are investigating.
