Thread: FWF Ban for Non Attendance

Originally Posted by Bagheera

We also know that forecasts are generally pessimistic, possibly intended to discourage the poorly prepared in planning, experience or temperament. Many other parties went ahead with their trips for that period. So, the statement that someone decided to cancel a trip based solely on a bad forecast is implausible.

Baseless speculation and assumption resulting in a fallacious conclusion

Then we take into account that these organised ballots, Haast roar, tahr and wapiti, each bring a couple if months’ domestic tourism to the local economies. Sure, most of the money is spent in big city shops, airlines and so on but some will end up locally.

Not a concern for the FWF within their mandate. Irrelevant.

Originally Posted by gimp

Not a concern for the FWF within their mandate. Irrelevant.

@gimp You have picked up my point.

Who gives FWF a mandate ?
As a trust they have "objectives". list of published objectives on web site
They don't seem to have an objective to run a wapiti ballot. What powers do they have to do it and what are the ground rules ? Their main leverage must be through controlling helicopter access and possibly hunting permits, which would be through DoC.

This is the closest section to promoting or organising hunting.
3.1.4 To inspire responsible educational adventure in the mountains and wilderness areas of the Fiordland National Park and particularly the area in which the Wapiti type feral deer herd is located.
Admittedly, there could be more in objective 1, 2 or others that aren't on their web site.

Originally Posted by Bagheera

@gimp You have picked up my point.

Who gives FWF a mandate ?
As a trust they have "objectives". list of published objectives on web site
They don't seem to have an objective to run a wapiti ballot. What powers do they have to do it and what are the ground rules ? Their main leverage must be through controlling helicopter access and possibly hunting permits, which would be through DoC.

This is the closest section to promoting or organising hunting.
3.1.4 To inspire responsible educational adventure in the mountains and wilderness areas of the Fiordland National Park and particularly the area in which the Wapiti type feral deer herd is located.
Admittedly, there could be more in objective 1, 2 or others that aren't on their web site.

Their mandate is under their management agreement, which is impossible to find but appears to be summarised in this infographic