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This link is to an interview by Kim Hill with Sir Peter Gluckman, retiring Science advisor to the PM. It is insightful and explains the...

gimp. I will try to find the Kim Hill program from this morning, listen to it properly and get back to you; re, science.

DoC "monitoring" ? ! :ORLY:

Yes. That comment is sensible. However, The reliance of DoC on so-called "estimates" , which is / are what is apparently being used to justify this cull is in essence acting upon guesswork. This is...

I shot a lot of Tahr in the Karangarua and Troyte in mid '60's and there were, some big mobs there at that time. I don't have a problem with the principle of herd management, but slaughter to waste...

1993. Cripes; their thinking hasn't advanced much has it ! The history indicates an unchanged destructive policy over more than 15 years.

Tahr. That sounds about right.
A major concern I have had for several years has been the attempts by DoC to rename (read "reclassify" )the RHA's and Forest Parks that were originally set up by...

As far as I can remember Tahr, there was a beautiful bronze statue of a Tahr placed alongside a main road access to Mt Cook ? National Park. DoC forced the removal of it from the park boundaries...

That doesn't leave any breeding stock. Tahr are a huge asset to our country and should be managed as a valuable recreational and plentiful and accessible resource. I recall when DoC forced the...

No different from the last lot of devious crooks. Just carrying on in the same vein because they think they can get away with it. New Zealanders are dumb not to be fighting them tooth and nail. Same...

Gonna be thrilling for all the hunters to have sfa to do except frolic around a maypole waving flowers and assisting all the pretty little DoC dollybirds broadcasting brodi and 1080. Oh yes, don't...

Democratic process? NZ has lost it ; and it has been being steadily eroded for the past 25 years at least. Why the hell hunting organisations continue to "be nice" to DoC and TBFree beats me. The...