The National Bovine Tuberculosis (Tb) Pest Management Strategy is currently being reviewed, and your views are sought on amendments proposed by the Animal Health Board. The Tb Strategy is the legal basis for controlling Tb in cattle and deer herds, and also in populations of wild animals that can spread the disease, such as possums.
The strategy has an annual budget of $82 million per year. The amendments, which will apply until 2025, include new targets to reduce the size of areas where Tb is found in wild animal populations, and assessing the feasibility of completely eradicating the disease from wild animals.
Submissions close on 30 November 2009.
Send them Attn: B Pereira, Minister of Agriculture, C/o
MAF Biosecurity NZ, PO Box 2426, Wellington 6140, email
belita.pereira@maf.govt.nz For hard copies telephone 0800 4 824 636.
The proposal is also at www.tbfree.org.nz
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