OSPRI is inviting feedback on the 2025 National Aerial Operations Plan for TBfree pest control operations.
Feedback responses are due by 30 September 2024
OSPRI, which manages the TBfree programme, is seeking specific feedback from people and organisations who may be affected by the proposed aerial disease control operations, including landowners and land users, farmers, hunters, and people involved in outdoor recreation.
Full details online can be found here, you’ll also find the National Aerial Operations Plan 2025 and the online feedback form link.
Who does this affect?
North Island aerial operations 2025
- Ahimanawa-Te Awahohonu
- Waikoau
- Southern Tararua
South Island aerial operations 2025
- Upper Wanganui
“We invite feedback on our 2025 national plan for TBfree pest control operations. We are seeking feedback specifically on the nature, boundaries and timing of proposed operations. We are not seeking feedback on wider issues such as the purposes of the TBfree programme or the use of 1080 for pest control in New Zealand.”
More information can be found within the National Aerial Operations Plan 2025 linked here.
The TBfree Programme
Possums are the wildlife source of TB infection in cattle and deer in New Zealand, so possum control is a key activity for the TBfree programme, alongside livestock TB testing and movement control.
The TBfree programme aims to achieve the following:
- livestock is free of TB by 2026,
- possums are free of TB by 2040,
- TB is eradicated from New Zealand by 2050.
More information can be found within the National Aerial Operations Plan 2025 linked here.
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