The Graf Boys

The Department of Conservation, TB Free New Zealand, and Regional Councils aerially spread the pesticide 1080 poison across New Zealand's forests and streams to kill deer and other wild animals. Sometimes domestic stock is also poisoned ...

The Graf Boys show you how to butcher a deer, in the field, down to the last bone. Nothing is wasted, and every pound of prime venison is harvested...

The Hawkes Bay, and Waikato District Health Boards respond to concerns raised by families exposed to 1080 poison, and animal carcasses in waterways ... Erratum: At 2 minutes 54 seconds into the video the word ‘milligrams’ is used erroneously. The correct word is ‘micrograms’.

Kea are one of the most endangered parrots on Earth. The New Zealand Govt agency - Department of Conservation - continues to aerially drop poisonous food directly into kea habitat to kill rats, possums and deer ... but it's not just rats and deer that are dying ...

Over 80 million dollars, including farmers and taxpayers hard earned cash, is spent eradicating a disease, that by World standards, has already been beat ...

Farming is tough enough, without having to work around poisoned deer carcasses, killed as a result of a massive aerial poison drop near Lake Taupo...

The Auckland Council stated in its pacifying document that it used "highly accurate GPS application technology to apply bait". The truth is that GPS technology was used to ensure every stream and watercourse within the drop boundaries were spread with 1080 poison. The Auckland Regional Public Health Service set conditions "to protect human health", and also helped with the "drinking water monitoring plan", stated Auckland Council in a project document. However, it's sobering to note that in 2008 the Ministry of Health stated "To date there are no known epidemiological studies that have been carried out in relation to 1080 and potential adverse health effects on humans." It's now 2016, and still no studies on chronic impacts have been done, but the areas the poison is being dropped into our environment continues to increase ....

Unusual eruption of water on top of bush country ridge ...

On the 13th and 14th of September, 2015, the Department of Conservation aerially spread 1080 poison across 23,500 hectares of the Coromandel Peninsula. Enough poison was distributed to kill over 340,000 people. Dairy farmer Bevin Fox tells how he was provided no alternative water supply while his cows drank water sourced from within the drop zone. Coromandel locals tell how they were drawing water without being notified 1080 poison had been dropped a few hundred metres upstream ...

Regional councillors Kathy White and Clyde Graf, with companion Hamish Parker, visited Stewart Island in July 2015, in search of kiwi. "We found a lot of birds, including robins, tomtits, kereru, kaka, bellbirds, tui, and even white-tailed deer, but the jewel in the crown was the kiwi. During a quiz night at Stewart Island Backpackers on our last night in Oban, our quiz companions from DoC told us that there are now approximately 20,000 kiwi on Stewart Island. This is the biggest kiwi population in New Zealand." Up until now, the Department of Conservation has been undertaking ground-based predator control on various parts of the island - primarily trapping and using bait bags on trees. A preliminary survey of Stewart Islanders in 2014 confirmed that although a lot of people are keen on eradicating predators, the vast majority support ground control methods only, and only a tiny number support aerial poisoning...http://rakiura.weebly.com/responses.html

This wild kiwi, filmed on Stewart Island, gets his photo taken while warning off the intruder. More footage here ... https://youtu.be/qnXgovq8GUA

Stewart Island is the home of kiwi. In this video, short clips are taken from The Graf Boys adventures on Stewart Island ...

Should wild animals like hedgehogs and deer be given a humane death, or should they be made to suffer? Does one deserve a better death than the other? You decide ...

New Zealand drops huge quantities of poison-laced food into its forest ecosystems; enough poison to kill its human population 4 times over, every year. No country has ever done anything remotely similar, on such a scale... This film investigates the scientific theory and rationalisation that drives this extraordinary practice, and provides a close-up look at one of the worlds most deadly poisons.... ...

In a letter to the CE of Waikato Regional Council, the CE of the Environmental Protection Authority suggests that 1080 poison does not harm aquatic life, and breaks down into harmless bi-products in water. However, some of the research referenced - Niwa freshwater ecologist Dr Alistair Suren's work - highlights a common trend in the poison industry, with regard to the misrepresentation of 1080-poison science by New Zealand authorities, and those that use the poison ...

Deer repellent is sometimes applied to 1080 poison baits in aerial poison drops across New Zealand Forests and streams. The blood-based solution is applied to the deadly cereal food baits to deter deer from eating them...

World Heritage area - Tongariro Forests is repeatdely aerially poisoned to kill deer, possums and rats - but are techniques used to "save" kiwi, killing them rather than saving them? - for further info visit www.1080science.co.nz ...

The Department of Conservation claims it's a leader in conservation, World-wide. But there are some concerning issues. The full video clip of this aerial drop can be viewed here ... https://youtu.be/rkgyXF56Uvo

The Graf Boys head to the Borland Rd area of Fiordland. Some cool action of an eager, Fiordland stag coming in close.

Steve Graf shows us how to try different techniques to roar the stags in.

The Graf Boys get the red stags of Fiordland worked up, and in close. Tips on roaring techniques, where to roar, when to roar, what to do and what not to do. Roarin in Reds is the perfect entree to your roar hunting trip!

The Department of Conservation claims it needs to aerially broadcast New Zealand forests with the deadly pesticide 1080, to kill plagues of rats. In this video clip you get a glimpse of what happens when 1080 poison is used to control rats ...

The Department of Conservation says it needs to use 1080 poison to kill rats and stop rat plagues. Rats have been present in New Zealand forests for over 700 years. This clip looks at various areas where 1080 poison has never been used, and one example of where it has. This is an observation only, but does raise some questions about areas where 1080 is used ...

New Zealand has some of the best trout fishing in the world! Every year, thousands of international visitors wade pristine rivers in search of the freshwater game fish. Large brown trout abound some back-country streams, and feisty rainbows reach weights of double figures in many regions. But there’s a problem facing New Zealand fishing, and it’s toxic, very toxic. The Department of Conservation is using helicopters to aerially spread the deadly pesticide 1080 poison across New Zealand’s forests and streams. The poison is targeted at introduced possums and bush rats, but many other animals, birds and insects are killed, including deer. The poison contaminates the food chain, and in a rare admission, the Department of Conservation is warning fishermen to avoid eating their catch, despite paying for the privilege … This video clip shows that the poisoning of New Zealand's trout goes much further than a few pesky mice...