Thread: Central otago venison recovery

Ffs why do so many people get all upset and anti towards waro? It's a necessary tool for the management of deer on conservation land. Consider the alternatives.. truckloads of 1080? It serves a purpose and allows the operators to make a buck at the same time, I for one would much rather see animals slung under a machine than left to rot on the hill due to indiscriminate poisoning. Imagine for a minute that we did nothing.. We would probably have an explosion in the deer population for the short term, untill the habitat they live in can't support the numbers and the population naturally declines again, the attraction to hunting for me would be gone if anyone could go shoot a deer because you couldn't even get to the carpark without running into one, or a whole group of them. Like it or not, some of the reasoning behind what DOC does in regards to eradicating deer has merit, they make take things a bit far and refuse to accept that they are actually shooting themselves in the foot by using methods such as poisoning (ie: "Save the birds" but in reality end up killing a whole shit tonne of them..) but totally ruined habitats isn't going to support native flora and fauna, and it sure as hell isn't going to support deer either.