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Anyone planning on a trip to New Zealand in the future may want to pay attention.
The current administration has been drastically ramping up their utopian goals as of late. It started with a massive poisoning operation as part of their "save the birds" campaign. This spring I saw deer carcasses everywhere at one of my favorite locations. The odd deer does manage to avoid it however I did not wish to shoot what may be there seed stock for the future.
Now they have there sights set on Tahr and plan on removing ( meaning shoot and leave to rot) about 25-30,000. Yes that's right 25-30,000. Although they have been doing culls for years now this is going to be done on a unprecedented scale. Another change is that they will also be targeting bulls this time where past agreement states no bulls to be shot. This operation is due to commence in a couple weeks leaving hunters and concerned citizens very little time to act.
Also the other day they started a proposal allowing to remove non-nation fish (ie: trout and Salmon from watersheds to assist the populations of native species.
Having hunted there for a month a year for the past 6 years I can say that New Zealand is an amazing place with some very big ecological problems.
That being said I cannot imagine dumping a million tons of poison on the landscape can have any upside.
The current administration has been drastically ramping up their utopian goals as of late. It started with a massive poisoning operation as part of their "save the birds" campaign. This spring I saw deer carcasses everywhere at one of my favorite locations. The odd deer does manage to avoid it however I did not wish to shoot what may be there seed stock for the future.
Now they have there sights set on Tahr and plan on removing ( meaning shoot and leave to rot) about 25-30,000. Yes that's right 25-30,000. Although they have been doing culls for years now this is going to be done on a unprecedented scale. Another change is that they will also be targeting bulls this time where past agreement states no bulls to be shot. This operation is due to commence in a couple weeks leaving hunters and concerned citizens very little time to act.
Also the other day they started a proposal allowing to remove non-nation fish (ie: trout and Salmon from watersheds to assist the populations of native species.
Having hunted there for a month a year for the past 6 years I can say that New Zealand is an amazing place with some very big ecological problems.
That being said I cannot imagine dumping a million tons of poison on the landscape can have any upside.