Successful tahr study could provide additional hunting opportunities – 16 November 2020
A Game Animal Council funded study has established it is possible to contain male tahr on private land providing additional hunting opportunities and potentially reducing conflict between guided and recreational tahr hunters…READ MORE
Give hunting a go during Get Outdoors Week – 12 November 2020
The Game Animal Council is pleased to be supporting Get Outdoors Week 2020, a national campaign encouraging Kiwis to get out and explore the great outdoors, safely…READ MORE
Game Animal Council welcomes new Minister of Conservation – 2 November 2020
Game Animal Council Chair Grant Dodson has congratulated Kiri Allan on becoming the new Minister of Conservation…READ MORE
Kārearea has hunters backing for Bird of the Year – 2 November 2020
New Zealand’s hunters have overwhelmingly decided to back the kārearea/NZ falcon in this year’s Bird of the Year competition following a poll run by the Game Animal Council (GAC), the NZ Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) and Hunters for Conservation…READ MORE
Hunters to choose their champion for Bird of the Year – 27 October 2020
The Game Animal Council (GAC), the NZ Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) and Hunters for Conservation are providing hunters with the opportunity to choose either the kārearea/NZ falcon or the whio as their ‘champion’ bird to back in the upcoming Bird of the Year competition…READ MORE
Changes to tahr control operations positive – 14 September 2020
Discussions between the Game Animal Council and the Department of Conservation have resulted in some positive changes to where the Department will focus tahr control outside Aoraki/Mt Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks…READ MORE
Long-term outcomes should be priority in tahr management – 1 September 2020
The Game Animal Council welcomes greater involvement in the implementation of the 2020-21 Tahr Control Operational Plan while remaining concerned at the decision to proceed with the full allocation of helicopter control hours in the national parks…READ MORE
Hunters for conservation – 16 August 2020
The Game Animal Council is welcoming Conservation Week and highlighting the great conservation and community-led volunteer work done by hunters…READ MORE
New Game Animal Councillors appointed – 13 August 2020
The Minister of Conservation has appointed five new councillors and a new Chair to the New Zealand Game Animal Council…READ MORE
Valued introduced species included in Biodiversity Strategy – 11 August 2020
The New Zealand Game Animal Council welcomes the inclusion of valued introduced species into Te Mana o Te Taiao – Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy 2020…READ MORE
DOC announces tahr cull at eleventh hour – 1 July 2020
The Game Animal Council is extremely disappointed at DOC’s failure to carry out meaningful consultation with the hunting sector when it comes to managing tahr…READ MORE
DOC Tahr Plan based on hazy science could cost jobs – 29 June 2020
DOC’s 2020-2021 Draft Tahr Control Operational Plan as presented to the Tahr Plan Implementation Liaison Group is not founded on adequate science and is a departure from plans previously supported by the hunting sector…READ MORE