The poison, 1080, is not expected to be used on Western Bay of Plenty forests in the near future.
Western Bay of Plenty District Council Mayor Ross Paterson says the districts that have called for certain bans on the use of 1080 – Taupo and Westland, both have a bovine TB problem.

Mayor Ross Paterson with other civic leaders from the Bay region on a tour of Aongatete Forest.

Possums and feral deer are a vector for bovine tuberculosis and aerial 1080 drops in those districts were used for that purpose says Ross.
'We don't have any bovine TB in the Western Bay of Plenty area,” says Ross.
Levels of bovine TB records are 0.2 of one percent, well below the international level that requires animal control.
'To date no 1080 has been used in the Western Bay area,” says Ross.
'While some conservation and environmental groups have talked about it, that's where it is at this stage.
'I haven't seen any application or decision to bring that forward.”
If there is any application for the use of 1080 in the Western Bay of Plenty, Ross says the debate will involve the total community before anything is done.
'It is a subject that can create a lot of noise and it is just a lot of noise that is being created at the moment,” says Ross.
He was commenting on the Aongatete Forest Restoration Trust's calls for aerial poisoning to knock back rats, stoats, possums, pigs and deer it says are destroying the forest in the Kaimais.