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

Originally Posted by Nugget connaisseur

For hunters and alot of people it does feel like a waste shooting deer and leaving them where they fall, or shooting a few extra and only taking the back steaks.
Yet no one has a problem doing that with goats.

A mindset change from resource to managed pest would help ALOT.

Agree - that can be done on a case by case/location by location/even year by year basis though on public land with some fairly light touch management. Would fit well with HOSIs - in those, population control is primarily by a community foundation (eg FWF); elsewhere recreational hunters are given a clear steer on what needs to be done - hotspots identified and shared for example. Hand in glove with regulated (possibly subsidised/funded) WARO

Private land remains a tough nut to crack, its up to landowners primarily to decide how they balance private property rights with cost of control.