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Deer Management Funding Welcomed
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 7:09 pm | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is welcoming $30 million allocated in Budget 2022 to implement the Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy: Deer Management and Goat Control. The funding, distributed over four years, will go towards initiatives ... More >>
Guide Released To Assist Management Of Red Deer
Thursday, 17 March 2022, 11:02 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) has released a guide for hunters to help them better manage New Zealand’s red deer during the upcoming Roar period and beyond. “The New Zealand Red Stag Ageing Guide has been developed, with input from professional ... More >>
Look After Your Mates This Roar
Friday, 11 March 2022, 10:42 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is encouraging hunters to take all the necessary safety precautions to look after their mates during the upcoming Roar. “The Roar is the highlight of the hunting calendar and for some people it’s bigger than Christmas,” ... More >>
Collaborative Deer Management Project For Fiordland
Monday, 24 January 2022, 8:50 pm | Game Animal Council
A deer management project jointly developed by the Department of Conservation, Fiordland Wapiti Foundation (FWF) and the Game Animal Council is about to get underway in Fiordland National Park. Designed to supplement existing management programmes, such as that ... More >>
Get Outdoors And Harvest From Nature’s Food Basket This Summer
Monday, 22 November 2021, 6:38 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is pleased to again be supporting Get Outdoors Week and is encouraging Kiwis to get out, explore and harvest from nature this summer. “Get Outdoors Week is about encouraging people into the outdoors and to enjoy all ... More >>
Valued Introduced Species Require A Modern Management Approach
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 2:46 pm | Game Animal Council
Valued introduced game animal species including deer and wild pigs require a consistent and modern management approach that recognises both their environmental impacts and their value to our communities, says the Game Animal Council. “Valued introduced ... More >>
Game Animal Council thanks Lou Sanson
Monday, 13 September 2021, 10:12 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is extending its thanks to outgoing Director-General of Conservation Lou Sanson for his dedication to conservation and recreation in New Zealand. “As a lover of nature and keen outdoorsman Lou has lived and breathed ... More >>
2021-22 Tahr Plan Reflects Pragmatic Management Approach
Monday, 10 May 2021, 1:32 pm | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is welcoming the release of the Himalayan Tahr Control Operational Plan 2021-2022 as a pragmatic approach to tahr management but remains committed to developing a long-term management programme for New Zealand’s tahr. ... More >>
Looking After Our Game Animals And Their Habitat
Monday, 22 March 2021, 11:16 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) has launched an online resource to help hunters implement good game animal management practices and achieve beneficial hunting and conservation outcomes. “ Looking After Our Game Animals is intended to explain in simple terms ... More >>
Are You Roar Ready?
Monday, 15 March 2021, 11:07 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is reminding hunters to be well prepared ahead of their autumn hunting trips by making sure they are ‘roar ready’. “Hunters are extremely excited about this year’s deer roar,” says GAC General Manager Tim ... More >>
Game Animal Council Welcomes Extra Effort To Process Firearms Licenses
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 10:06 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) has welcomed a commitment from the NZ Police to put more resources towards processing outstanding firearms licenses. As of December 2020, 9800 new licence applications and 2940 licence renewals sat outstanding. “The GAC ... More >>
Game Animal Council Working To Improve New Rules For Firearms Users
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 10:25 am | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council (GAC) is applying its expertise in the use of firearms for hunting to work alongside Police, other agencies and stakeholder groups to improve the compliance provisions for hunters and other firearms users. The GAC has been ... More >>
Successful Tahr Study Could Provide Additional Hunting Opportunities
Monday, 16 November 2020, 3:28 pm | Game Animal Council
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. Most tahr hunting, both recreational ... More >>
Give Hunting A Go During Get Outdoors Week
Thursday, 12 November 2020, 12:08 pm | Game Animal Council
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. “We know there are significant physical health challenges across our communities, but ... More >>
Kārearea Has Hunters Backing For Bird Of The Year
Tuesday, 3 November 2020, 8:23 am | Game Animal Council
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. ... More >>
Hunters To Choose Their Champion For Bird Of The Year
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 11:02 am | Game Animal Council
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 ... More >>
Changes To Tahr Control Operations Positive
Monday, 14 September 2020, 11:11 am | Game Animal Council
Discussions between the Game Animal Council (GAC) and the Department of Conservation (DOC) have resulted in some positive changes to where the Department will focus tahr control outside Aoraki/Mt Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks. Reallocation ... More >>
Long-term Outcomes Should Be Priority In Tahr Management
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 6:56 pm | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council welcomes greater involvement in the implementation of the 2020-21 Tahr Control Operational Plan outside Aoraki/Mt Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks and will engage constructively with DOC to balance conservation values ... More >>
Hunters For Conservation
Sunday, 16 August 2020, 2:15 pm | Game Animal Council
The Game Animal Council is welcoming Conservation Week and highlighting the great conservation and community-led volunteer work done by hunters through the ‘Hunters for Conservation’ #huntingisconservation badge. “Hunters spend a lot of time ... More >>
New Game Animal Councillors Appointed
Thursday, 13 August 2020, 12:50 pm | Game Animal Council
The Minister of Conservation has appointed five new councillors and a new Chair to the New Zealand Game Animal Council. “Grant Dodson has been appointed Chair of the Game Animal Council and takes over from Don Hammond who has been Chair since ... More >>
