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Just heard from a reliable source that DOC plans to 'remove' 30,000 Tahr from throughout the Tahr range starting in the next three weeks. Has anyone else been made aware of this ???

The title of this thread is 'Tahr cull Doc Betrayal' What has Doc Betrayed if there is no current Tahr management plan ? The Conservation Act - which governs Doc does not say that Doc has to do...

Well said Ethos. Achieving those objectives should be our goal. What I fear most is the actions of idiots who for example release Wallaby's, pigs, Sika into other areas . Thieves who shoot and steal...

Well we should make our business to know how these things work otherwise we are going to be facing a never ending stream of surprises and be continually on the back foot. Who wrote the last plan?...

As I posted on 2/7 according to GAC, THERE IS NO CURRENT HIMALAYAN TAHR CONTROL PLAN. THE LATEST PLAN IS FOR 2015. So the question to be asked is 'When the plan expired why was it not renewed' ?
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The problem as I see it, is that 'Hunters' are such a fragmented disorganised bunch of non trusting individualists that we are our own worst enemy. Have a read of the 'Game Animal Council' documents...

Just Read the 19 Feb GAC meeting minutes from the link posted by Chalkeye. My take is that we could all be very confident in GAC and need to get behind them. I had certainly heard about them but...

No one knows what the perfect solution is but lets have your suggestion as the way forward. If a person wants to fish for trout or shoot ducks etc they have to buy a licence. What will NZ look like...

Today I went for a walk in the bush, a warm puffy wind from all directions and no good for hunting but that didn't matter. I thought about this thread while I explored a new place. What marvelous...

Fair enough comments Chalkeye regarding the staff. There does however seem to be an overriding and non neutral bias against all Big Game animals and has been for many decades.
With current official...

You are totally right in your sentiments Gimp. Further should extensive game animal culls come as any surprise with the Greens in charge of the Conservation portfolio to any thinking person alive ?....