The Killing Nation

"Rural revolt - in defence of Coromandel's wild kingdom is an environmental and social history in five parts. First they came for the goats tells of the government's "wall of death" pogrom against feral goats. Don't fence us in tells of an attempt to enclose farming families and others behind a divisive predator-proof steel barrier. Save our wild pigs exposes the stealth attack by local government to take wild pigs off the rural New Zealand menu. Coromandel voices: poison peninsula presents the struggle for humane conservation policies. This volume, The killing nation: New Zealand's state-sponsored addiction to poison 1080, documents how our wilderness continues to be poisoned despite decades of community opposition and mounting evidence of environmental harm"--Back cover.