I don't know, however please don't imagine that culling is particularly unusual or completed, the job is too big for ground hunters to achieve. A lot of aerial culling WILL be required to get numbers...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 06:38 PM
I absolutely agree that rec hunters can make a partial contribution to reducing tahr numbers and should be being encouraged to do so. I am not involved with the Tahr Interest Group or a...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:56 PM
There is kill return data from the ballot blocks. It's publicly available online for 2017. Note that about 50% of parties returned a diary, and the reported female:male kill ratio is about 1.5:1....
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:55 PM
ZIP have done quite a lot of research in this direction as well. They have determined, as best as they can tell, the trap density required to detect/eventually catch low numbers of possums remaining...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:54 PM
Politics, lack of funding for control/monitoring, harvest (rec/commercial) lower than predicted, population increase rate greater than predicted, population initially higher than estimated, high...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:49 PM
There's a lot of hatefulness and vitriol here, and perhaps a lack of understanding the situation. I am not and will not engage with the former, and am speaking strictly on the subject of tahr control...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:48 PM
There's a lot of hatefulness and vitriol here, and perhaps a lack of understanding the situation. I am not and will not engage with the former, and am speaking strictly on the subject of tahr control...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:28 PM
I'd pay. And remember that paid, licensed hunting was the original intent with the acclimatisation societies, and the norm until 1931.
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 05:13 PM
Again, I'm not going engage with the mindless hateful posts, but there are a couple of things worth noting: 1: If this operation is successful, possums will be eradicated from that block. ZIP have...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 02:43 PM
I imagine it's a mild exponential curve % increase every year due to this yes. I don't have any data to say what the population was doing year-to-year between 1993 and now and the population estimate...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 01:50 PM
Again, I'm not going engage with the mindless hateful posts, but there are a couple of things worth noting: 1: If this operation is successful, possums will be eradicated from that block. ZIP have...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 12:24 PM
Again, I'm not going engage with the mindless hateful posts, but there are a couple of things worth noting: 1: If this operation is successful, possums will be eradicated from that block. ZIP have...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 12:07 PM
I'd pay. And remember that paid, licensed hunting was the original intent with the acclimatisation societies, and the norm until 1931.
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 10:13 AM
I'd pay. And remember that paid, licensed hunting was the original intent with the acclimatisation societies, and the norm until 1931.
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 09:06 AM
There's a lot of hatefulness and vitriol here, and perhaps a lack of understanding the situation. I am not and will not engage with the former, and am speaking strictly on the subject of tahr control...
Liked On: 01-07-2018, 09:02 AM