Thread: The state of pest populations in NZ

Originally Posted by NZAlpine

Heard plenty of talk that wallaby numbers are getting out of control already


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Wallabies are spreading, saw one bowled over on the road near burke's pass a couple months back. Old man does heaps of work on them but it's a never ending battle, toon a couple thousand off a big station up near Omarama a while back but Doc didnt want to stump up the money to have an adjacent Doc block done... pretty disheartening to come back and find hundreds of them on the station again as they filter back out from the Doc land. The opposite is often true also, will do a Doc block and nearby farmers dont want to have them done and it's almost a waste of time. Doc and farmers really need to start working together to make any headway on these problems, same goes for rabbits in Otago.
Red deer are in pretty good numbers in places also, dad got asked to "knock any deer over on the crop paddocks" on one place back in winter while he was doing wallabies as apparently there was "one or two about"....... after the first night he got a chiller truck out from local heli operators and ended up with about 60 deer in it just ground shooting over the next few nights, this is South Canterbury down to around Central Otago area hes operating.
The other day I nearly ran off the road as I drove past the golf course in Roxburgh, there was literally thousands of rabbits on it!
One thing I havent seen much of lately around here is possums, have literally seen one possum that's basically tame anyhow and hangs out in our workshop and that's it the whole time we have been down here (west otago) havent seen any at all in pine plantations around the place.