New Zealand Deerstalkers Association - Latest News [Page 2]
An Animal Welfare Disaster - Deerstalkers demand answers
Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 4:43 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
New Zealand, Wednesday 20 November 2019 - The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association is demanding answers over the scheduling of 1080 poisoning operations during the current breeding season, saying new born fawns are threatened with starvation if ... More >>
NZDA Encourages the Next Generation of Hunting in NZ
Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 9:20 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
New Zealand, Tuesday 19 November 2019 - The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association (NZDA) is encouraging the next generation of New Zealanders to actively participate in hunting, saying hunters play a crucial role both in society and protecting the ... More >>
Deerstalkers Back Firearm Law Public Awareness Campaign
Monday, 11 November 2019, 2:54 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association is backing the firearm owners’ public awareness campaign designed to inform New Zealanders about proposed new firearm laws. More >>
Deerstalkers Association Opposes Arms Legislation Bill
Thursday, 24 October 2019, 11:04 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
New Zealand, Thursday 24 October 2019 - The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) appeared before Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee yesterday on behalf of it’s 8,000 members to submit on the proposed Arms Legislation Bill. More >>
Deerstalkers promise active role in firearm law debate
Tuesday, 23 July 2019, 5:08 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association says it will take an active role in the debate on proposed firearm law changes to ensure any future legislation is fair, reasonable and meets the needs of both firearm owners and the general public. More >>
Spread of wilding pines: Govt must in for the long haul
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 7:30 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
WELLINGTON – The continuing spread of wilding pines is a serious menace to New Zealand’s back country, says the NZ Deerstalkers’ Association Inc. More >>
Deerstalkers’ Association on Wanaka Crash 2018
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association deeply regrets the tragic loss of life in a helicopter accident while conducting wild animal control operations near Wanaka. More >>
Deerstalkers Support Freedom of Access to Hunter Valley
Thursday, 26 July 2018, 11:28 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
All New Zealanders should have free access to publicly owned land, says a spokesman for the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association, Bill O’Leary. More >>
Hunters should stick to the basics and “be safe”
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 11:51 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Safe use of hunting firearms is pretty basic, says NZDA President Bill O’Leary. The approaching “roar” and the opening of the game bird season will encourage thousands of hunters into the hills and swamps of New Zealand and national hunting ... More >>
Deerstalkers condemn deer release
Friday, 27 October 2017, 5:53 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Hunters have joined with other voices in condemning threats by anti-1080 activists to illegally release deer in new areas currently free of game animals. More >>
Select Committee failed to identify the target
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 4:49 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The Parliamentary Select Committee set up to address illegal possession of forearms has fired at the wrong target, says Bill O’Leary, President of the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association. More >>
Firearm users must follow the rules
Friday, 24 March 2017, 1:01 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
“The Arms Code must be followed to keep hunters safe. Failure to do so puts lives in danger and only idiots and criminals would do that,” says Bill O’Leary, President of New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association. More >>
Hunters should stick to the basics and “be safe”
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The approaching “roar” and the opening of the game bird season will encourage thousands of hunters into the hills and swamps of New Zealand and national hunting associations and key government departments think it is timely to remind hunters ... More >>
Hunters should stick to the basics and “be safe”
Tuesday, 15 March 2016, 2:02 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The approaching “roar” and the opening of the game bird season will encourage thousands of hunters into the hills and swamps of New Zealand and national hunting associations and key government departments think it is timely to remind hunters ... More >>
Takahe Investigation Closed
Monday, 14 December 2015, 2:03 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association (NZDA) is relieved the investigation into the accidental killing of takahe on Motutapu Island has been completed. More >>
NZDA Calling for Police to Cancel Their Contract with NZMSC
Friday, 7 August 2015, 9:33 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association is calling for police to cancel their contract with the NZ Mountain Safety Council. More >>
Deerstalkers Launch a Hunter Education Trust
Monday, 24 November 2014, 1:21 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association (NZDA) has announced the launch of the NZDA Trust, a charitable trust dedicated to funding the education of hunters in safe hunting practices. More >>
Minister's condemnation of seal killing "hypocritical"
Monday, 30 September 2013, 11:54 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Conservation Minister Nick Smith’s condemnation of the killing of 23 seals near Kaikoura as an ‘obscene crime’ is ironic and hypocritical when his department kills countless native birds and other animals a year in 1080 poison drops, says ... More >>
1080 – Not ‘Lucky To Have It’
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 2:08 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright's latest pronouncements on 1080 represents an ever-growing threat to New Zealand's ‘clean, green’ image, according to the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association. More >>
We Don’t Want Any Hunting Deaths This Roar
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 9:15 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
This is the sincerest hope of Bill O’Leary, Vice President of New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association (NZDA) and national coordinator of the association’s hunter training scheme HUNTS. More >>