Thread: This pisses me off!

Mickey the point is that you keep missing, the one activity that really devalues and corrodes any ability too have workable management, Is the helihunting and shooting of immature or young mature bulls. As what appears to happen in the video. Its not what Tim says, or anyone else. its what is presented and what is not said.

I think the guides discussing management, while not bringing the biggest factor too the table is misleading and dishonest.

This from Marcus Pinney.

[QUOTE we were exporting around 1100 tahr trophies annually. While it is fair to say that probably half these animals would have come from private land, the 10,000 limit in the HTCP includes private land too. It seems probable that NZ recreational hunters would have been removing a similar number of bulls annually to that being exported suggesting a total annual harvest approaching 2000 bulls pre-covid. So what resource are we left with if DOC reach the intervention densities stipulated in the HTCP? Modelling of game herds indicates that a population of 10 000 tahr across all land tenures would only produce around 200 6-year-old plus trophy bulls annually. A mere 10% of the pre-covid harvest.[/QUOTE]

Our herd is drastically reduced since then. Yet our harvest has not. The crash in the mature Bull cohort is well under way and will become more and more noticeable each year from now.