Thread: Tahr cull to resume

NZ Tahr Foundation

Just a quick up date from the Tahr Foundation.

You may have recently seen media reports of a resumption of tahr control.

No formal control plan has as yet been agreed to, the Tahr Liaison group is set to meet on the 19th of this month to consider a draft plan for the period June 20/20 to June 20/21.

The Department and Ngai Tahu have been engaging with all stake holders to hear their views on what form control should take over this period.

The Tahr Foundation takes the view that it is now time to focus on research before any further reduction in tahr numbers. Any control work for the next 12 months should be focused on the exclusion zones and tahr out side the feral range.

Bull numbers in the National Parks will be reduced already due to the activities of recreational hunters who are active right now. There will be less bulls returning to those parks after the rut than were present in the spring of 2019.

The Nation Parks are as much about recreation as conservation, bulls are the main incentive for hunters to visit the parks and kiwi recreational hunters are not only the main visitors to recreate in the parks but also contributors to conservation by removing tahr.

Any attempt to target what is left of the bulls in the parks has no basis in sound management and will be resisted.

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