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Ive only retired from this thread :)

Hah. I've retired hurt.

Getting on with DOC is a bit like getting on with your neighbours. its not just all about them. We throw a lot of shit over the fence and hardly ever stop to wonder what its like living in their...

Extermination has never been a realistic policy. Nowadays DOC have bigger fish to fry with pests, and even controlling deer numbers is outside of their capability and resources. Deer are here to...

Yeah, that's what I thought about the vegetation when I read it too. But hunters have always trotted out the Moa browsing theory. Maybe we will never know how many there were and what effect that...

There is very little "spin" about it actually. Its one thing that DOC & OSPRI are actually quiet about. In fact, on this topic you create more spin than "they" do.
Sure, it needs a lot more...

Landcare estimate there were circa 58,000 Moa at the time of human arrival.
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Exactly, Hamish. How many might have died if it had not been used?

Its classical inductive reasoning to start with a conclusion that we wish was true, and then to select the evidence that supports...