Friday, 23 September 2016

Intro Options for Pitch


Option One:

You’re in the bush on a hike. It’s a beautiful day, in fact, a really hot sunny day. The bush is peaceful and quite, almost too quite. Walking a bit further, a pungent smell drifts under your nose. You look to the side to see a decaying deer with its neck twisted back and foam coming out from its eyes, nose and mouth. Before you scared them away, little birds were having lunch on the carcass. What would you do? Would you ponder on what happened to it? Probably had some form of disease right? Ya know, one of those natural things that just happens without control?

(Show image of the deer)

No, that deer that you just thought about was murdered by a poison called 1080. Unnecessary and cruel. Not to mention dangerous to the birds who were eating it.

(Insert info of 1080)



Option Two:

(Show a picture of a Kea on the screen) Hey mummy what bird is this? Why haven’t I seen one? Could potentially be a question asked by your child. What are you going to say?  That our generation let the lethal poison called 1080 continue being dropped in our native forests? That these very birds they wish to see no longer exist, and they suffered a horrible tortured death?

1080 is destroying the animals is was made to protect, and we’re giving up the fight. There are other alternatives to using this poison, so why are we turning our backs on such a problem?

(Insert info of 1080)



Option Three:

What if the only way for you to get your nutrition is to go out hunting? How can you go hunting when there’s a 1080 drop happening where you have to wait at least 6 months before you go out into the forest? Or what about all the animals you could’ve hunted and taken home that are instead dying and rotting on the forest floors?

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