Hi Bing - Don't get me wrong, I'm all for pest control that has a direct affect on the proliferation of native birds. What I was alluding to is the typical methods that large corporate companies and government departments now use to disguise their full intentions. Instead of coming out and telling us exactly what it is they are up to, what they are trying to achieve and how they are going to get results, they instead drip-feed the details in separate disclosures. In order to get the big picture you need to join dots that on the surface, do not appear to connect.
In this case I was joining dots between this bird sanctuary and the culling of tahr.
Incidentally, I'm fairly certain the recent rain in the Rakaia catchment would have done more "damage" to the environment, the plants and the rock formations in one weekend than the population of tahr could ever hope to achieve in decade.
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