Thread: Hunting fatality in BOP

Originally Posted by Zedrex

Unless I've missed a change, under The Wild Animal Control Act 1977 and the Wildlife Act 1953 poaching is most definitely a criminal offence here, or have I misread what you meant?

Taking a farmers stock is theft or rustling but not poaching. And illegally hunting wild game is illegal hunting and not poaching as they already belong to "the public" and that applies whether it is wild animals on public land or private.....

My understanding is that Poaching is not possible here in NZ from a legal standpoint not because it is allowed, but because of the ownership or lack thereof of the various animals taken.

What I was getting at was the headline should have read Illegal hunting.