Thread: Thar extermination

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Whilst I dont agree with the numbers, tahr need to be culled, theres bloody heaps of the buggers about and they build up into near plague proportions in some areas. They are a good freezer filler but dont really interest me as a game animal anymore as youre guaranteed success if you look in the right places and it seems every man and his dog can go out and shoot a 12 or 13 inch plus bull and a tonne of nannies and younguns for the freezer. Its a shame that this mad woman at the helm just goes and makes these decisions seemingly without any kind of dialogue with interested parties other than her own bunch and in true DOC fashion, facts and figures are pulled from antiquated studies and figures to suit her agenda.

I see you point.

However culling them and leaving them to Rot is only because they are classed as a pest.

If the Government is forced to recover the animals,the cost will increase ten fold. Then they will be forced to look at alternatives such as licencing foreign hunters or a quota system for guides. This could ultimatley cause a shift in the Thar status to game animal.

They could let the crews recover the meat, that way there is no cost to the government, let the ground hunters have a good crack in the easy to get to places, if they don’t do the job to the standard let the WARO guys in, to get the numbers down, if they fail then cull them and let them go waste, just my thoughts on trying to keep everyone happy and have their slice of the pie, not too everyone’s liking I know, but hey I tried.