Thread: Advocacy Alert: MPI's New Deer & Pig Programme

The truth is the whole set up is a conflicting shambles of ideology/s and hypocrisies. WARO can hunt and land anywhere and seem to be held up always as a useful tool. Yet the current and long term outlook is that they will not be a major participant. They have always conflicted with REC hunters through targeting of stags when they are operating, and both groups have to have the question asked that if their main goal is males, then what good are they doing? Though I think rec hunters do take a lot of females outside of the roar.
Rec hunters face a heap of restrictions over vast areas of public land- wilderness areas, remote experience zones, national parks. All mostly mandate walk in and much of that country is remote as hell and requires experience in tough terrain.
Private land and lack of access has been a major contributor too this current problem. Dont get me wrong it is private land- whether farmland, forestry or Iwi, and it's their prerogative to manage it how they wish. But at least two of those groups seem to be wanting their cake and to eat it too.

Environmentalist want eradication as the base line, as can bee seen with Wapiti and the HOSI bill, despite 100 years of that mandate being the default setting and its been an absolute failure that has pretty much prevented any semblance of structured, goal orientated management.

Rec hunters want everything and for free. Just dare mention a licence or tag system. Yet they are going to have to contribute more. Way more somehow.

The whole thing is a shitshow, and you could not design a system to fail any better.