Thread: Thar extermination

Originally Posted by Lukeduncan

An email I have just received from NZ First. I imagine that it has been sent to all that emailed him. The first half of the email sounded pretty good to me until the part where they say "The established Himalayan Tahr Control Plan accounts for only 10,000 animals and the population is now estimated at 35,000. Because of this the Minister has asked the Department of Conservation to step up efforts. It will take work from all interested parties to bring the population back down to a sustainable level.
Urgent, additional intervention is necessary to protect alpine habitats and prevent further population explosion."
It seems that they still don't understand that the current tahr control plan is 25 years old and needs to be reviewed to meet the current situation. The tahr need culled but not to the extent of what Ms sage is saying.

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Shit that reads like a real kick in the teeth, like NZ First have washed their hands of it ..... "you've been consulted, the population is 35,000, so piss off and get out of the way. The Minister has decided what to do ...".
We need some one with political clout and balls to point out that the actual count might only be 19 - 20,000.
And that the DOC estate has increased by xx,xxx HA since 1990 when the Tahr Plan was drawn up due to retirement of HC grazing.
Ya might have 10,000 extra Tahr but 100,000 ? 200,000 ? (some very large number) of sheep no longer grazing that high country tussock.