Thread: Tahr cull doc betrayal

Originally Posted by gimp

I have to imagine those discussions are happening, but historically volunteer foot culls achieve relatively minor number reductions. It’s not like DOC has gone and shot all of the tahr, and numbers are back to 10k already. There has been an ordinary culling operation combined with a media release (?) from the minister referencing new monitoring numbers, there’s still opportunity for hunting groups to go volunteer to shoot a bucketload if tahr if we want to

My problem with this cull is the total lack of consultation with recreational hunters for a recreational and commercial resource.
We have been down this path before with these culls and have the associated outrage that follows so why does the department want to create such conflict again?
I thought those days of Doc's ignorant attitude towards game animals had changed but we now have an extremist conservationist in charge.

In my opinion Doc should have approached Nzda, Game animal council and recreational hunters regarding possible breaches of the population to give us some notice and a chance to get out there and lower the population before this cull.