The Game Animal Council is celebrating National Volunteer Week by giving a big shout out to the hundreds of volunteers that dedicate their time and effort to making a contribution to New Zealand’s hunting sector. “Volunteers are absolutely essential .
Matthew Littlewood15:26, Jun 07 2021
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Tahr at Aoraki/Mt Cook National park. The Department of Conservation has a policy of “zero density” of the animal within national parks. (File photo)
Hunting organisations continue to call for the “zero density” policy for tahr control in New Zealand national parks to stop, documents show. Documents released to
Stuff under the Official Information Act show that in submissions to the Department of Conservation’s tahr control programme for the 2021-22 season, released last month, there was much debate among members of the Tahr Liaison Group. The group, which features a mix of conservation and hunting interests, met in December 2020 and March this year in order to progress the tahr control programme for the upcoming season, which begins next month.
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The San Aotea II, pictured leaving Timaru s port in early June, berthed back in Timaru in August 2020.
A rescue and a retrieval featured prominently in June’s news coverage out of South Canterbury, writes Doug Sail in the sixth instalment of our series looking back on the year that was. Sanford deep-water fleet manager Darryn Shaw said the trip to the South Georgia Islands was necessary because of the impact of Covid-19, which had made it difficult to get people out of the Falkland Islands. ‘‘Normally we would bring our people back by air, via South America, but that is not possible at this time with borders closed into that region,’’ Shaw said.