Thread: Wapiti Roadshow

I went to the roadshow recently when it was held at the Hutt Valley Deerstalkers club night. Roy Sloan from the Wapiti Foundation gave a passionate talk about the threat from the proposed legal action by F&B to can the agreement between the FWF and DOC for the FWF to look after the area. If they succeed, there will be no managed WARO to keep the animal number in sync with the environment as its currently not commercially viable. If WARO takes off again, then it will be another boom-and-bust cycle. With no wapiti herd of significance, it is likely that the stoat trapping lines run by the FWF will run out of volunteers. The film put together by Willie Duley was excellent and if watching that doesn’t make you want to head for the Fiords then nothing will.