Thread: Russell Sika Deer Eradication

Originally Posted by TLB

In recent times many contractors have been issued notice books before for various wild animal control jobs, some of whom will be on this forum. Just have to get signed off which was a fairly simple task.
Issuing a notice can be done very easily as well, not even in person. Then the contractor can enter as they please, any hindrance can result in fairly serious penalties.

However I think that all of the landowners in regards to the job above are onboard. And like most contracts, issuing a notice is a last resort. Liaising with all of the effected parties and bringing them on board is a far better option, especially in the long term.
There has been contracts where landowners have not been forthcoming to the point where there has had to be a police officer escorting the contractor onto the property each day.

contractors have been issued notice books before for various wild animal control jobs-- just to clarify this will be a very different beast indeed to a formal notice from the Minister of Conservation to use the powers under the WAC act to enter and control deer - what the Contractors will have had will be more of a simple permission form ( will be a legal document )-A formal notice from the Minister probably only used every 10 years if then and will have come after Solisitors involved and all other avenues to enter land have been exhausted -it definitely would not be given to a Contractor to deliver and not used in possum control since the WAC act only refers to deer goats etc ungulates - we used a landowner permission form basically for every possum operation -just ties everything up legally