Thread: Thar extermination

Originally Posted by Shearer

Just found this on the DOC website and highlighted a few interesting points

How will the control operations be done?
A meeting with the Tahr Liaison Group was held in Christchurch on 29 August 2018. The following approach to reduce the tahr population has been proposed:

NZDA, Safari Club International and Tahr Interest Group work together with their members to remove at least 2,500 tahr from public conservation land and provide evidence and data.

WARO operators (who are concessioned) to remove 3,000 tahr from public conservation land and provide evidence and data.

AATH operators to remove 1,500 tahr from public conservation land using offsets and provide evidence and data.

Professional hunting guides to remove 500 tahr from public conservation land and provide evidence and data.

DOC to remove 10,000 tahr from public conservation land and provide evidence and data (excluding Westland/Tai Poutini and Aoraki Mt Cook National Parks).




The main things I got from that are that between AATH, guides and DOC, they will be removing 5000 "trophy" animals from DOC land.
We can't complain about a lack of information about the process.
Here is a link to the site if you want to view the maps.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-re...ol-operations/

From a population of ESTIMATED at 35,600 it is NOT POSSIBLE to have 5000 "Trophy" animals espesially when the current female bias is observed.