Thread: Moose !!!

Alot of the speculation over the last 10 odd years, stemmed from a prominent Te Anau helicopter operator who supposedly saw one.
I believed it at the time.

I've read and enjoyed Ken Tustin's 'A wild moose chase'. It convinced me that there is [or was then] a small surviving population -how long they will remain sustainable is questionable.

I don't know Ken at all, but while Moose are clearly an obsession for him he is a very experienced knowledgeable hunter/biologist. You might argue that he 'wants them to exist', but he seemed to approach the search in a balanced and scientific manner. From memory his evidence included a cast antler from the 1970's, tracks and browse sign in the 1990's and then DNA evidence in the early 2000's.