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“Pest” Wallabies Could Be Earning Money For NZ
Monday, 25 May 2020, 10:01 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Wallabies given a dishonourable mention in government’s recent budget as a pest needing money to combat them, could be earning valuable local and export dollars money by way of meat and hides says a hunters’ environmental advocacy the Sporting ... More >>
Rabbit Disease
Friday, 24 April 2020, 11:21 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
An outbreak of Rabbit Viral Haemorrhagic Disease type 2 (RVHD2) is currently sweeping the UK and Ireland. The virus is deadly to rabbits both in the wild and at home and kills in just 24 hours. There are usually no symptoms, and when rabbits finally show ... More >>
Scare-mongering Over Pests Defies Basic Science
Monday, 6 April 2020, 2:12 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Cries that coronavirus lockdown was interfering with “essential pest control” were scare-mongering not unlike supermarket panic buying says a hunting organisation the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust. The comment was in response to an Auckland University ... More >>
Firearms Minority of Use in Murders
Monday, 5 August 2019, 2:43 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Firearms have become the victim of misplaced hysteria and knee jerk reactions following the tragic Christchurch mosque shooting by an alleged Australian terrorist says a hunting and environmental body. Laurie Collins of Westport and spokesman for the ... More >>
Total Ecosystem Vital with 1080 say Hunters
Friday, 2 August 2019, 4:29 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
The total ecosystem should be the top priority in assessing the damage by 1080 poison aerial drops says the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust. More >>
“Hidden Agenda” of 1080 Poisoners Needs Scrutiny
Thursday, 23 August 2018, 8:56 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
A Fiordland 1080 aerial 1080 poisoning by TBfree NZ needs close scrutiny as to its purpose and justification says the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust. The aerial poison drop is being carried out by TBfreeNZ, an arm of OSPRI formerly the Animal Health ... More >>
Hunters Say Remutaka 1080 Drop as Based on Fiction
Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 10:42 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
A big game hunters’ group has criticised a 1080 poison aerial drop on 24,000 hectares of mountain country between Hutt Valley and the Wairarapa as being ecologically damaging and not justified. More >>
DoC Killing and Starving Coromandel Kiwi
Sunday, 5 August 2018, 1:32 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Comments from the Department of Conservation’s Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki that dogs are to blame for the decline in kiwi numbers on the Coromandel Peninsula denies the real cause says the Sporting Hunters’ Outdoor Trust. More >>
Forest and Bird’s 1080 Flip-Flop
Tuesday, 31 July 2018, 10:13 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Forest and Bird, currently vehement supporters of aerial 1080 poison drops, have done a complete U turn over poisons says a recreational hunters’ body. Laurie Collins spokesman for the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust says in the mid-1990s Forest and ... More >>
Hunters Back Scientists' Criticism of “Impossible” Dream
Monday, 30 July 2018, 3:38 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
The Sporting Hunters’ Outdoor Trust has condemned the much vaunted Predator Free 2050 campaign as unrealistic, unattainable and destructive ecologically. More >>
Hunters Back Scientists Criticism of Predator Free 2050
Sunday, 29 July 2018, 2:10 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
The Sporting Hunters’ Outdoor Trust has condemned the much vaunted Predator Free 2050 campaign as unrealistic, unattainable and destructive ecologically. More >>
DOC Accused of Scaremongering Over Deer Release
Friday, 10 November 2017, 4:23 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
The Department of Conservation has been accused of “scare mongering” in claiming people opposed to the department’s widespread and growing use of 1080 poison had threatened to release sika deer in north Taranaki. More >>
Hysterical Beat-up by DOC and GAC Over Taranaki Sika Deer
Monday, 30 October 2017, 6:28 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
The controversy and reaction by the Department of Conservation and chairman of the Game Animal Council over alleged liberation of sika deer in north Taranaki lacked credibility says Laurie Collins, spokesman for the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust ... More >>
Kiwi Taught Violence to Wild Animals Shocks USA
Sunday, 20 August 2017, 12:21 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
An American professor of ecology has slammed New Zealand education authorities for teaching youngsters to hate wild animals and thereby practise cruelty to them. Marc Bekoff at the University of Colorado recently wrote a number of essays about New ... More >>
Hunters Welcome DoC’s Crackdown on Poachers
Monday, 7 August 2017, 9:46 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
A hunting organisation the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust (SHOT) has welcomed the Department of Conservation’s crackdown on poachers and is hopeful that includes deer poachers too. More >>
Government “Blindly Arrogant” over 1080 Use
Monday, 27 February 2017, 1:51 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Government in wanting sole control, over the use of 1080 poison and brodifacoum was removing citizens’ right to protest said Laurie Collins convenor of the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust (SHOT). More >>
Helicopter Deer Hunting Inflicting Cruel Death On Fawns
Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 9:22 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
Commercial wild deer recovery operators are killing female deer leaving newly born fawns to die a slow lingering death says a national sporting hunters organisation. More >>
Hunters Reject DOC Plan for More 1080 Poison
Monday, 23 November 2015, 9:44 am | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
A national hunter’s organisation has rejected a call by the Department of Conservation (DOC) for more 1080 aerial drops because the department suspects a possible beech seed masting year again next summer. More >>
Govt Prejudice Against Deer a Factor in Firearm Accidents
Monday, 19 October 2015, 4:54 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
A hunters’ advocacy group says a government-generated prejudice against wild animals is a significant factor in firearm accidents particularly hunters mistaking another hunter for a deer. More >>
1080 Baby Food Scare Seems on “Inside”
Friday, 16 October 2015, 4:41 pm | Sporting Hunters' Outdoor Trust
The 1080 baby food scare came to a head October 13 with the arrest of a 60 year old businessman charged with “blackmail.” He was alleged “to have sought financial gain.” More >>
