Thread: Quick and easy submission for the Game Animal Council select committee

Nobody wants to see the majority of NZ hunting locked up in any way at all. Hunting on the majority of public land will remain free, except for the special herds that hunters identify they want some extra management on like the Wapiti herd. Here the majority of hunters want and are prepared to pay for the extra management required to try and improve the herd. The big gains on the rest of the public land will be more say on things like 1080 drops and Waro/helihunting etc that can seriously affect our hunting opportunity. The main thing is that we will be making our own decisions for a change, and not having DoC or the government of the day's whims forced on us. It won't happen overnight, but once we've got the legislation in place, then we can really start to make some changes.

Originally Posted by Greg Duley

Nobody wants to see the majority of NZ hunting locked up in any way at all. Hunting on the majority of public land will remain free, except for the special herds that hunters identify they want some extra management on like the Wapiti herd. Here the majority of hunters want and are prepared to pay for the extra management required to try and improve the herd. The big gains on the rest of the public land will be more say on things like 1080 drops and Waro/helihunting etc that can seriously affect our hunting opportunity. The main thing is that we will be making our own decisions for a change, and not having DoC or the government of the day's whims forced on us. It won't happen overnight, but once we've got the legislation in place, then we can really start to make some changes.

As it is proposed, won't "we" be a minority voice on the Council amongst a majority of commercial members? Or am I wrong?