Thread: Tahr foundation - give a little page

Game animal council was only established in November 2013, that's five years ago. The Govt at the time did provide several hundred thousand dollars setting it up and provided funding through their final term. The GAC was set up essentially to become self funding over time. Big ask in a short time frame, but they have achieved some good stuff with the limited funds they have to play with to date.

People commenting on who had a chance to update or modernise the TCP 1993, or "who" should have put more pressure on the tahr numbers while in charge, is not a valid argument, as the Govt has changed several times in the last 25 years. So essentially they've all had a chance to implement more intensive control measures over the last two and half decades to meet the numbers in the TCP 1993.

The only difference now is, Labour/Greens have increased funding to DoC and they now have the money to do more culling.

As much as this relates to hunting in NZ, and it is political to a degree, we should be mindful of keeping political opinions and agenda off the forum aye...

Originally Posted by JoshC

Game animal council was only established in November 2013, that's five years ago. The Govt at the time did provide several hundred thousand dollars setting it up and provided funding through their final term. The GAC was set up essentially to become self funding over time. Big ask in a short time frame, but they have achieved some good stuff with the limited funds they have to play with to date.

People commenting on who had a chance to update or modernise the TCP 1993, or "who" should have put more pressure on the tahr numbers while in charge, is not a valid argument, as the Govt has changed several times in the last 25 years. So essentially they've all had a chance to implement more intensive control measures over the last two and half decades to meet the numbers in the TCP 1993.

The only difference now is, Labour/Greens have increased funding to DoC and they now have the money to do more culling.

As much as this relates to hunting in NZ, and it is political to a degree, we should be mindful of keeping political opinions and agenda off the forum aye...

Good post.

I think the question we need to ask ourselves is: are we willing to stump up the money to pay for game management. As in better heads. Less animals and an acceptable equilibrium between browsing by ungulates and forest health.

There is a happy medium where there's enough deer to make hunting them worth it and low enough to have a healthy bush. We just need to find it

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Originally Posted by JoshC

As much as this relates to hunting in NZ, and it is political to a degree, we should be mindful of keeping political opinions and agenda off the forum aye...

@JoshC I do agree that in general politics should remain outside of the forum. But in this case it is about hunting, also it will affect us in the future. If we can get the party's to see that we are a vote worth chasing then our children, forest and game animals will have a brighter future. So I think that for this CASE ONLY we need to bring politics into the discussion.
Cheers Sideshow

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@JoshC I do agree that in general politics should remain outside of the forum. But in this case it is about hunting, also it will affect us in the future. If we can get the party's to see that we are a vote worth chasing then our children, forest and game animals will have a brighter future. So I think that for this CASE ONLY we need to bring politics into the discussion.
Cheers Sideshow

Pretty much what I was getting at. Whether we like it or not the future of game animals and our public lands are subject to decisions & dogma or ideology of the government of the day. So to preserve what we value and indeed to see game animals thrive and blood lines improve we need politicians to make the right decisions and legislation. The setting up of GAC was a step in the right direction but as it is structured it lacks the right powers or teeth. It needs to be taken to the next level and all game animals recognised as such. The term “pests” should apply to rats, stoats etc only. If we don’t fight for what we want others with opposing views or ideas will be more than happy to continue to move the needle to suit themselves