"We can jump up and down and protest as much as we like but it's not achieving anything, the last time there were 40 police officers there for 22 of us," he said.
"We have been told by the police this time ... to pull our heads in because the Government will not be embarrassed while the World Cup is on."
Mr Allen said it was frustrating that a 4000-signature petition submitted to Parliament to the select committee for the misuse of 1080 had not been successful.
He said there were alternatives to using the poison.
"One guy could look after 2000 hectares, he could take care of the goats, rats, possums, stoats - the whole lot without damaging the bush."
Whenuakite landowner Arthur Hinds - who was assaulted at a community meeting in July because of his support for 1080 - said there was "quite a police presence" at yesterday's operation.
"They've been made aware of threats where the anti-1080 people have threatened to get into the bush, collect the bait and spread it on farmland at Whenuakite and even put it into milk vats. It's real crazy stuff."
Mr Hinds said he maintained his stance that 1080 was New Zealand's most-effective pest eradication weapon.
He credited it with the success of the kiwi recovery programme that started in 2000 with 29 kiwi in the area and now has 98 birds.
"It's an ideal toxin for New Zealand conditions provided you use it correctly," he said.
A DoC spokeswoman said the aerial drop was done in conjunction with a community trapping project which had snared more than 1000 stoats in the block in the past 10 years.
She said a Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment report released in June recommended the continued use of 1080.
Mr Allen's claims that the poison left the forest silent was "a common myth", and studies showed species such as kaka, kiwi and kokako were not susceptible to 1080.
"The forests fall silent if adequate pest control is not undertaken and introduced predators are allowed to decimate our native wildlife," she said.
