History
KAKA was formed in January 2008.
It's initial task was to fight the July 2008 aerial 1080 drop on some 50,000ha of Kahurangi National Park and surrounding farmlands.

Objectives
In conjunction with like-minded groups
and individuals across the West Coast (and New Zealand):

• Disseminate valid reliable information on 1080 related issues.
• Foster linkages and information sharing between anti-1080 groups.
  
• Ensure that those responsible for pest-control activities are fully accountable.
• Implement a politically-based regional strategy to force an effective ban, no later than 2011, on 1080 air drops across the West Coast.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of effective alternative methods for pest and Bovine Tuberculosis control.
• Ensure that the level of funding currently used by Councils, the AHB and DOC and others on pest control programs across the Coast continues to be available for implementing alternative (non-1080) pest control methods.
• Ensure that any alternative programs maximise the employment of local residents in small communities.
• Make a positive contribution towards a possible future national ban on 1080.

KAKA Founder Dies
Dave White was instrumental in founding KAKA, giving the communities of Karamea and Little Wanganui an organized and powerful means of voicing their concerns about the broad-scale, indiscriminate use of 1080 poison in their backyard and elsewhere across the West Coast. Click Here to view our tribute to Dave.

Coast-Wide 1080 Petition
A Haast to Karamea petition closed in October 2008. The results will be invaluable in providing support for a regionally based political campaign.
Click Here To View Petition

KAKA Legal Fund
KAKA has already received valuable legal advice. During our ongoing campaign we will need to seek more legal advice. Any information received will be made available through this website (subject to the agreement of the relevant legal advisor).

The fund will be ongoing and donations would be greatly appreciated.
Click Donation Button For Further Details

Environmental Risk Management Authority
(ERMA) Review of 1080
ERMA's 2007 report is invaluable. To see the Chairperson's comments, conclusions and recommendations click here

DOC and 1080 Fraud
This report by Patricia Whiting-OKeefe, PhD (Chemistry), Quinn Whiting-OKeefe, BA (Chemistry, Math), MA (Math), MD, FACMI
Read More...

The 1080 Conspiracy
The Truth And Nothing But The Truth
by Hans Willems©2002
Read More...

Basic Guideline for Lodging Objections
To Pending 1080 Operations
by Graham Sperry for ESPC
Click To View Guideline

Youtube Video Clips
The following four youtube clips feature the documentary, A Shadow of Doubt by the Graf Boys. This documentary is about 1080 and its effects on New Zealand.


1080 Poison in New Zealand Part 1
1080 Poison in New Zealand Part 2
1080 Poison in New Zealand Part 3
1080 Poison in New Zealand Part 4

Music
Click here to listen to the song Doc Agent by John Veysey.

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