Thread: Help Stop 1080, please sign

Originally Posted by tanqueray

As per @Tahr’s post, that act isn’t current. Deer are classified as “wild animals”. This means that they can be subject to control, however nowhere to my knowledge are they classified as pests/noxious animals in current legislation.

I understood that the act has been amended on a number of occasions and that the Wild Animal Act 77 which is an amended version of the 1969 act maintains the understanding of deer as a pest species that requires management and covers the containment of pest species and the obligations of people who wish to contain (farm) deer.

I need to re read that to be sure and as always I'm happy to be corrected.

At any rate the various amendments from memory are or were in alignment with the shift from crown funded culling to encouraging and expanding recreational hunting as a means of contributing to control measures as well as the increasing commercial harvesting of deer (venison being worth a bob or two really helped).