THE GAC UPDATE

Collaboration vital for game animal management and conservation

I don’t want to go into detail about the ins and outs of the recent debate over the 2020-21 Tahr Control Operational Plan as I’m sure most readers will be familiar with it, but despite a pretty challenging process overall the Game Animal Council did make some gains for hunters in the end. Discussions with DOC about the remaining control work will see the reallocation of hours outside the national parks move away from a number of accessible tahr hunting areas to more inaccessible and remote locations. We also gained a commitment that control work was not to take place close to road ends, huts and helicopter landing sites frequently used by hunters. Instead operations were targeted at areas of known high tahr density and that are largely inaccessible to…

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