Thread: Alpine Helicopters culling tahr

https://i.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/...trol-programme

Seems these guys are straight up liers. I've just come out of the two thumbs, climbed up onto the tops this morning and these assholes turned up and proceeded to buzz the whole creek system I was in looking for Tahr. They're still up there now, watched them do all the stuff up behind the Macauley Hut on the Sibbold and then they came around and started doing the two thumbs. The fact that someone is doing it I've come to accept. But the fact that these guys straight up lied to the media to take the heat off when they were getting a real hard time on social media etc is piss poor form on their behalf

You sound somewhat surprised

Quote from DoC website: "Hunters can head out on trips this summer on public conservation land throughout the feral range knowing DOC’s work for the year is complete."

You sure they were culling? Or maybe they were doing mandatory nanny kills for AATH?

Well you know who NOT to use next time you need a machine.... the whole cull thing sucks but there are ways to go about it without being dicks, if they can see you are hunting up a side creek it's easy enough for them to go the next ridge over and leave you alone!

Here is part of the DOC Email l received at the end of Nov last year ,stating cull had finished for summer on public conservation land -



You are receiving this Himalayan tahr control programme update as you have requested information about the Department of Conservation’s wild animal control programmes.


Tēnā koe,

We have completed our planned Himalayan tahr control operations within the tahr feral range for 2020.

Hunters can now head out on trips this summer on public conservation land throughout the feral range knowing tahr control for the year is complete.

Between mid-July and early November, we aerially controlled 7481 tahr on public conservation land to protect alpine eco-systems from the impacts of high tahr densities.

Maps showing where tahr were controlled as part of the Tahr Control Operational Plan for 2020/21 have been uploaded to the DOC website.

Sightings of identifiable males located outside of the national parks management unit have also been mapped to help hunters.




Next month, DOC will meet with the Tahr Plan Implementation Liaison Group to begin engagement on a Tahr Control Operational Plan for 2021/22.
We are approaching the development of next year’s work programme with an open mind and we are looking forward to reviewing what we have learnt over the past couple of years with members of the group.

Tahr controlled between July and November 2020:


A total of 7481 tahr have been controlled between July and November 2020 under the Tahr Control Operational Plan 2020/21.

Management Units 1-3 & 5-7

4,182 female and juvenile tahr were controlled on public conservation land located outside the national parks management unit, but inside of the feral range.
Outside the national parks management unit, DOC targeted high densities of tahr and did not target identifiable males. The groups targeted generally ranged in size between 10 to 30 animals. Other tahr were left for hunters in these areas.

Management Unit 4 (National Parks)

3,299 tahr were controlled within the Aoraki/Mount Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks Management Unit to protect these special places.
Management Unit 4 (national parks) is the only location inside the feral range where DOC is legally required to target all tahr.



Thank you for your interest in Himalayan tahr.

Ngā mihi nui,

Dr Ben Reddiex

Operations Director

All culling has meant to be finished... im confused. Get any footage?

Originally Posted by 223nut

Well you know who NOT to use next time you need a machine.... the whole cull thing sucks but there are ways to go about it without being dicks, if they can see you are hunting up a side creek it's easy enough for them to go the next ridge over and leave you alone!

nah they SHOULDVE gone over ridge and chased some your way...THEN pissed off....

it stinks alright Ryan...hope you had good hunt all the same....

Originally Posted by hotsoup

All culling has meant to be finished... im confused. Get any footage?

No cos my phone was dead, they're still up there now, fuel truck is sitting at the end of the road there where you enter into the Macauley River

Tourism business for them will be down plus they bought 2x 500's for the job when the tenders came up, hardly surprising I would have thought.....

Originally Posted by hotsoup

All culling has meant to be finished... im confused. Get any footage?

The culling never finishes. It's always going on somewhere.

Looking for deer maybe? They crashed another 500 back in November shooting deer.

Has anyone rung doc to actually ask what’s going on?

Just after lockdown massive 1080 drop 12 plus choppers and a tent city in a local cockys paddock . I stopped and ask the guys on the gate what there up to? they replied ooh training exercise for young chopper pilots.
What a load of shit ,something to hide for sure . Not big on conspiracy theories .but I think some Govt work requires a security level with the mandate public must not be given correct information. lie,mislead whatever this Govt work requires it .

Originally Posted by Mr300WSM

Has anyone rung doc to actually ask what’s going on?

I'll be ringing them when I get home. I'll also be asking them why alpine helicopters is involved when they specifically said they wouldn't do tahr.

were they shooting....or just buzzing?????