Thread: Tahr cull doc betrayal

Originally Posted by Shearer

So why has nothing been done over the last 25 years to keep the population at the desired 10,000? Once again I would suggest lack of management.

I thought Gimp had already answered this pretty well: Politics, lack of funding for control/monitoring, harvest (rec/commercial) lower than predicted, population increase rate greater than predicted, population initially higher than estimated, high numbers on pastoral land dispersing to public land, take your pick of any/all of the above maybe.