Thread: Tahr foundation - give a little page

Originally Posted by JoshC

Game animal council was only established in November 2013, that's five years ago. The Govt at the time did provide several hundred thousand dollars setting it up and provided funding through their final term. The GAC was set up essentially to become self funding over time. Big ask in a short time frame, but they have achieved some good stuff with the limited funds they have to play with to date.

People commenting on who had a chance to update or modernise the TCP 1993, or "who" should have put more pressure on the tahr numbers while in charge, is not a valid argument, as the Govt has changed several times in the last 25 years. So essentially they've all had a chance to implement more intensive control measures over the last two and half decades to meet the numbers in the TCP 1993.

The only difference now is, Labour/Greens have increased funding to DoC and they now have the money to do more culling.

As much as this relates to hunting in NZ, and it is political to a degree, we should be mindful of keeping political opinions and agenda off the forum aye...

Good post.

I think the question we need to ask ourselves is: are we willing to stump up the money to pay for game management. As in better heads. Less animals and an acceptable equilibrium between browsing by ungulates and forest health.

There is a happy medium where there's enough deer to make hunting them worth it and low enough to have a healthy bush. We just need to find it

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