Thread: Whataroa kea

Originally Posted by gimp

It depends on what bias you bring and project onto their decision making. It could be what you say, or it could be that they legitimately don't want to kill kea, and are trying to mitigate the risk.

Either way they're monitoring kea with radio collars through the operation, and have publicly reported the bykill from their last operation (a handful of birds and something like 3 deer I think) so there's no indication that they won't report it this time: If they find that these baiting methods kill too many kea then they don't want to use them. No-one in conservation wants to kill native birds.

We had best park it there gimp, there are realities of DOC management and there are good ground staff working hard for not much.
Fingers crossed for the local kea that this isn’t one of the high mortality drops.