Thread: Hunting fatality in BOP

Originally Posted by timattalon

Taking a farmers stock is theft or rustling but not poaching. And illegally hunting wild game is illegal hunting and not poaching as they already belong to "the public" and that applies whether it is wild animals on public land or private.....

My understanding is that Poaching is not possible here in NZ from a legal standpoint not because it is allowed, but because of the ownership or lack thereof of the various animals taken.

What I was getting at was the headline should have read Illegal hunting.

yes I know what you mean a deer coming from Public land onto a cockys property is not legally his- as a feral animal it is property of the crown - it can be shot by anyone with permission of the cocky - and is then theirs - thats under the Wild Animal Control Act - but we are splitting hairs - to the Cocky Police and a Judge the term they will use is poaching since that is in common usage - the last thing the judge will say is leave your firearm and firearm license at the door on your way out ya poacher - to shoot an animal on DOC land without a permit is not poaching as such it is illegal hunting yes i.e no permit to carry a firearm and that is what the permit is for really