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Lack Of Consultation By Government Shows And Public Get Behind Tahr
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 10:32 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
New Zealand Deerstalkers Association Inc (NZDA) are disappointed to receive a final Himalayan tahr control operational plan from the Department of Conservation (DOC) for the coming 2020/21 operational period that ignores any advice and input from ... More >>
Deerstalkers Call For Good Faith Discussions Regarding Tahr Management
Monday, 29 June 2020, 12:32 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association Inc (NZDA) is supportive of the Tahr Foundation’s application for a High Court injunction to stop the Department of Conservation’s move to extensively cull Himalayan tahr and hopes it will mean that DOC will come ... More >>
NZDA’s Position On Arms Bill, We Say No To Bad Laws Affecting Good People – A Refresher
Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 6:43 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
You will have seen that the Arms Legislation Bill may soon be back before the House for its third reading. If it passes then it will become law. The NZDA delivered, an maintains, a strong message of opposition to the proposed Bill and its provisions. ... More >>
Deerstalkers Join Programme To Feed Needy Families
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 8:21 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) is delighted to support an initiative to feed needy families with tonnes of prime wild venison harvested in Fiordland. The meat comes from hundreds of deer culled in Fiordland National Park as part of ... More >>
Hunters Pleased With Rules For Level 2
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 4:36 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association, Game Animal Council and New Zealand Professional Hunting Guides Association are pleased that the rules around COVID-19 Alert Level 2 will allow hunters to access public conservation land and travel to their favourite ... More >>
New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association Inc Urges Hunters To Follow Level 3 Rules
Tuesday, 28 April 2020, 12:09 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association Inc is welcoming the resumption of hunting and is urging hunters to follow the new anti-Covid rules as the country eases its tough pandemic lockdown restrictions. After nearly five weeks of being locked down ... More >>
NZDA Condemns Poaching During Lockdown
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association Inc is condemning poachers caught hunting during the Covid lockdown, saying it is illegal and undermining the wider hunting fraternity. There have been several reports of people caught illegally hunting on ... More >>
Covid-19 Level 3 Hunting Ban
Friday, 17 April 2020, 11:30 am | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association Inc (NZDA) is disappointed that hunting has seemingly been blanket banned following the Government’s release of its Covid-19 Level 3 guidance yesterday. The NZDA is calling for a re-think and further clarification ... More >>
New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association Appoints Chief Executive
Tuesday, 31 March 2020, 3:20 pm | New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
The New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association has appointed keen hunter and highly experienced lawyer Gwyn Thurlow as the organisation’s Chief Executive and General Counsel. Gwyn Thurlow has wide corporate legal experience and holds both a Bachelor of Laws ... More >>
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 >>
