Thread: Moose

I know it's a pretty dumb question but has the idea of another liberation ever been seriously considered? surely it could be done better. Or would that not be even conceived these days?

DOC would be a burden.....all deer on DOC land are considered 'pests' for eradication....1080 usually......

other problem is, when the big OK for hunting them was announced, every fukin man and his gran (me included) would be out there slaying the poor big dumb bastards.......back to square one in no time!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Scouser

DOC would be a burden.....all deer on DOC land are considered 'pests' for eradication....1080 usually......

other problem is, when the big OK for hunting them was announced, every fukin man and his gran (me included) would be out there slaying the poor big dumb bastards.......back to square one in no time!!!!!!!!

Just wondering why deer are regarded as pests? Haven't they been around for ~100 years?

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

I know it's a pretty dumb question but has the idea of another liberation ever been seriously considered? surely it could be done better. Or would that not be even conceived these days?

Not in this day in age I wouldn't think, sadly.

Cause they eat trees

Plenty of trees to go around surely? I mean it's not like they're elephants that destroy vast swathes of countryside?

Originally Posted by Ryan

Plenty of trees to go around surely? I mean it's not like they're elephants that destroy vast swathes of countryside?

They are an introduced species therefore a pest (to conservationists) in principle because conservationists are trying to return, as much as possible, the land to the way it was before human introduction of species. That's the way I understand it at least.

Originally Posted by phillipgr

They are an introduced species therefore a pest (to conservationists) in principle because conservationists are trying to return, as much as possible, the land to the way it was before human introduction of species. That's the way I understand it at least.

OK fair enough but humans are an introduced species too... geez that'd make for a pretty boring landscape with no mammals.

Originally Posted by Ryan

OK fair enough but humans are an introduced species too... geez that'd make for a pretty boring landscape with no mammals.

The Moa would have made up for it I reckon. Them and the Haast Eagle. Would have loved to have shared the forests with those beasts.

Originally Posted by phillipgr

They are an introduced species therefore a pest (to conservationists) in principle because conservationists are trying to return, as much as possible, the land to the way it was before human introduction of species. That's the way I understand it at least.

Better they start feeding some people 1080, humans are messing up the environment more than any deer ever will!

Going by their logic vegans are pest too

I would think it wouldn't be that hard to get an import licence from MAF to bring a few in, but you would need to jump through some serious hoops to having them running round the farm.

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I would think it wouldn't be that hard to get an import licence from MAF to bring a few in, but you would need to jump through some serious hoops to having them running round the farm.

Let alone the forest park

Originally Posted by phillipgr

Let alone the forest park

Opps they broke out of the fence.....

you have to wait till after the cyclone for that . . .