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1080 poison is often dropped from planes in remote areas to control possums. In the 1990s these bags of 1080 were tipped into a tractor scoop, to be loaded into a plane.

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Department of Conservation

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by Keith Broome

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Simon Nathan, Conservation – a history – Control of introduced animals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13912/loading-1080 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.