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DOC could be better with publicising information, about hunting as well as many other things. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by institutional inertia

I've quoted these numbers in this very thread, in the context of "rec hunters contribution is historically small compared to DOC/AATH SAD". However in 2012 TIG culls removed 707 tahr, DOC was 2269 or...

NZDA are aware of tahr numbers and have been for months. They are really the only significant organised hunting group in NZ to my knowledge? I don't know what is going on at high level between DOC...

I’m not sure exactly, but not going to say any more as this thread has renewed my curiosity and I am actively investigating.

Can you find anyone since like, the 1950s, blaming major erosion on ungulates?

Current deer repellent is not really a practical option for large areas, it's too expensive and logistically very difficult to arrange for various reasons. Alternatives are being investigated.

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Bullshit

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...

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...

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....

I have to imagine those discussions are happening, but historically volunteer foot culls achieve relatively minor number reductions. It’s not like DOC has gone and shot all of the tahr, and numbers...

These are DOCs questions to answer and I imagine that now, with a minister that cares about (doesn’t like) tahr, they will be answering them

Do you know something about it that I don't?

I'd pay. And remember that paid, licensed hunting was the original intent with the acclimatisation societies, and the norm until 1931.

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...

3000 was a number I made up to make an example that I then didn't bother with posting. It has no bearing on anything. I believe the number specified for the required yearly harvest to keep numbers...

It won't be a constant percentage per year increase in population, just works out to about 5% average per year over the 25. There will be ecological variations - population increase will slow in...

It's part of the puzzle, not the whole picture. Numbers are still increasing in areas far from pastoral land, where there is access. We are not shooting enough tahr.

The increase from 10,000est to 35000est over 25 years is actually not as terrible as it sounds, in terms of an annual population increase it's only around 5% per year - natural increase in absence of...

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...

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...