Thread: Game Animal Council (GAC) to be scrapped by Conservation Minister?

Originally Posted by bigbear

Once we as hunters start paying to hunt there will be no going back. The price will only keep going up and the average kiwi want be able to afford it. It will become a rich mans sport for the kiwi rich and foreign hunters.

It has already gone that way largely in the respect of private land access.
As a kid I could if asked nicely,mabe do a bit of farm work in return or drop of some meat if successful hunt pretty much any local farm.
Nowdays more often than not if it is not being run as a game park someone has brought the sole hunting rights.