Dear Tracy

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Jane <[FOI #10894 email]>
Sent: Monday, 5 August 2019 1:03 p.m.
To: OIA <[DOC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Kokako population numbers in Hunua Range after 1080 aerial poisoning

Dear Department of Conservation,

Please provide me with the information
1) about the number of kokako that have been moved from a breeding facility to the Hunua Range after 1080 aerial poisoning. This pertains particularly to the most recent poison operation last year, but if there have been other times that kokako have been moved from one rohe to the Hunua Range after other drops, please include those in this information request.
2) In addition, could you please point me where I would find the current numbers of rat and mice and stoat populations in the Hunua Range, as I have read research that although rat populations drop to nearly zero post-poison operation, they do increase dramatically around a year after an operation without adequate ground operations.

3) In addition, could you please explain DoC and Auckland Council rational of why the Hunua Range, being easily traversed terrain and so close to a large population, was poisoned instead of using ground control management of pest species. And please explain the cost comparison between the aerial poison operation and what it would cost if a land-based pest management system, and if DoC/Council had put that to public tender?

4) In addition, could you please tell me, if any, what post-1080 poison operation ecological testing DOC and Auckland Council have carried out on the Hunua Range that pertains to invertebrate numbers and health, soil health - including worms, soil fungi and bacteria, fluoride concentrations in the soil, leaf litter decomposition, and so on. (thinking about how the "Wood Wide Web" would be affected such as this https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/...)

Yours faithfully,
Tracy Livingston

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Dear Tracy,     

Thank you for your request for information about Kokako population numbers
in Hunua Range after 1080 aerial poisoning.

 

I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

We will respond to your request within 20 working days of receipt of your
request.

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact Joanne Kearney
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reference 8140005404.

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The Privacy & LGOIMA team

Auckland Council

 

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Dear Ms Livingston,

 

Please find attached correspondence relating to your request of 5 August
2019.

 

Kind regards

Department of Conservation

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Please find attached a response to your request of 28 August 2019.

 

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Kia ora Tracy

Our response to your request for information about kokako population
numbers in Hunua Ranges is attached.  If you have further questions,
please contact me at [email address]

Ngā mihi

Joanne Kearney
09 977 1702
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