Thread: Thar extermination

Originally Posted by Tentman

Its also a puzzle as to how "all of a sudden" Tahr have become a problem, one would assume from their website DOC are supposed to have ongoing control plans, yet numbers have climbed "out of control" - so have they not being doing their jobs the last few years, perhaps someone needs the sack to wake the rest up. In any case as with all matters requiring investigation I suggest the Foundation gets someone onto "following the money" as I suspect either DOC budgets or lobbying money will tell us a story.

I’m probably to share the blame, I’ve seen mobs of nanny’s 30s and 40s when bull hunting and only shot a couple of nanny’s on the trip out. I should of came back on a nanny meat but I shoot enough deer too keep me going.
Numbers can build up e.g 10,000 nanny’s having kids, one third being bulls so that’s 7,000 nanny’s, so every three years your numbers tripled in a best case scenario. Weather for the flying assessment on numbers could have been better than previous years or the helo operators putting DOC into high density numbers to line there own pockets in a extended cull operations? It’s happened in the past.