Vertebrate pesticide risk assessment by indigenous communities in New Zealand
由在新西兰的土生土长的社区的脊椎动物杀虫剂风险评价作者机构:Ecology DepartmentLincoln UniversityLincolnCanterburyNew Zealand Landcare ResearchLincolnCanterburyNew Zealand Lake Waikaremoana Hapu Restoration TrustTuaiNew Zealand Tuhoe Tuawhenua TrustMuruparaNew Zealand
出 版 物:《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学(英文版))
年 卷 期:2010年第5卷第1期
页 面:37-43页
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学科分类:0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学]
基 金:Animal Health Board [R-80620 R-80667 R-80667-01]
主 题:1080 indigenous communities Maori risk assessment sodium fluoroacetate
摘 要:In New Zealand,the vertebrate pesticide sodium fluoroacetate(Compound 1080)is aerially applied in baits for control of the brush-tailed possum Trichosurus vulpecula(Kerr,1792).Maori,the indigenous people of New Zealand,have raised concerns about 1080 impacts on culturally-important ***,we outline two steps taken to help Maori assess 1080 ***,field research was undertaken to determine if naturally-occurring plants utilized by a Maori community for food and medicine would take up 1080 from *** baits were placed at the base of individual plants of two species,pikopiko(Asplenium bulbiferum)and karamuramu(Coprosma robusta).Plants were sampled at various times up to 56 days,and samples were analyzed for 1080 *** 1080 was detected in any of the pikopiko samples,whereas 1080 was detected in karamuramu,at a maximum concentration of 5 ppb after seven days,and 2.5 ppb after 14 *** concentration decreased to 0 at 28 days,indicating that 1080 was not *** results of the present study suggest there is negligible risk of humans being poisoned by consum-ing plants that have taken up 1080 from *** allay community concerns that minute concentrations of 1080 might influence the medicinal properties of plants,it is suggested that a withholding period of 30 days after 1080 control operations could be ***,after further consultation we undertook a review of the scientific literature relating to 1080 impacts on additional non-target species of cultural importance to *** information was presented on an interactive foodweb database that allowed the collection and presentation of a large volume of complex information about 1080 in a holistic and pictorial *** database was presented to many Maori communities throughout New Zealand,and feedback was overwhelmingly *** database is likely to play a key role in informing these communities about 1080,and is seen as an important new tool to help these communities