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Not even they would say that.

DOC have acknowledged that the lead from buckshot used culling Tahr is affecting Kea, hence a move away from buckshot.

The current Tahr plan (there is one, but old) sets a limit of 10,000 animals across the range. Estimates of the population that I have seen have been up to over 50,000, and well outside the range. I...

This is the sort of data DOC have published in the past:

https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/hunting/what-to-hunt/tahr/tahr-culls/

I expect that the only areas that...

I thought Gimp had already answered this pretty well: Politics, lack of funding for control/monitoring, harvest (rec/commercial) lower than predicted, population increase rate greater than...

How do you know this?

I have a Masters degree, and don't eat cake.

If the herd is 30,000 odd animals at present I've got no doubt that it it needs a thinning. Tahr can be destructive animals.

I've never hesitated to shoot a few extra nannies on my trips to thin...

The target is a population of 10,000 Tahr

OK. I guess thats the one on the lake edge now. Cheers

Whats that about Woody ?