29th January 2024 Conservation / HuntingHunting and Fishing Minister Todd McClay says more can be done to align conservation and hunting to preserve habitats.
1st November 2023 Education / HuntingThe Game Animal Council has launched an e-learning platform designed to help hunters understand the fundamentals of the sport and its safety.
25th July 2023 HuntingA new hut at Waianakura Scenic Reserve in North Otago will open to the public at the beginning of August.
24th July 2023 Hunting / PoliticsThe party says a ‘Huts of Recreational Importance’ initiative will help maintain accommodation on the DOC estate.
6th April 2023 DOC / HuntingThe Department of Conservation is asking trampers and backcountry hunters to be considerate of others who are out and about during the Easter weekend.
21st March 2023 Campaigns / HuntingThe NZ Mountain Safety Council and ACC are asking hunters to ‘have a hmmm’ and ensure their safety as the annual roar season kicks off around the country.
17th August 2022 DOC / HuntingMore than 430 female deer have been eradicated from conservation areas around Kaikiekie/Bradshaw Sound in western Fiordland.
9th May 2022 Fish & Game / HuntingThe opening day of the 2022 game bird hunting season on Saturday attracted locals and international visitors, says Fish & Game New Zealand.
14th April 2022 DOC / HuntingDOC says hunters need to share the backcountry, including huts and tracks, safely and are mindful of others during this season’s roar.
11th May 2021 DOC / HuntingA hunter-led approach to tahr management in planning for South Rakaia/Rangitata.
30th April 2021 HuntingDuck hunters are being urged to be vigilant about safety and refresh themselves on the seven rules of firearm safety.
25th March 2021 Event / HuntingDOC asks deer hunters to take extra care in key season after two year gap in bid to avoid injuries.
10th February 2021 Events / HuntingThe annual Pureora Forest Park Hunting Competition will return for 2021 after being cancelled last year due to Covid-19.
27th November 2020 DOC / HuntingThe Department of Conservation has completed its planned Himalayan tahr control operations for 2020.
23rd September 2020 DOC / HuntingA helicopter company and pilot have been fined $32,000 for illegally dropping off and collecting hunters from a designated wilderness area in the Kaimanawa Ranges.
15th September 2020 DOC / HuntingThe Department of Conservation has finalised its Tahr Control Operational Plan for 2020/21 after meeting the Game Animal Council.
2nd September 2020 DOC / HuntingThe Department of Conservation has released its new Tahr Control Operational Plan for 2020/2021 after consultation with stakeholders.
18th August 2020 DOC / HuntingHunters seeking a trophy Himalayan tahr can now access new maps showing where mature bulls were seen during recent control operations, says the Department of Conservation.
20th July 2020 DOC / HuntingAbout 450 hunters crowded the road from Lake Pukaki to Aoraki/Mt Cook to protest the Department of Conservation’s tahr cull.
16th July 2020 Events / HuntingThe event had been running for 27 years and attracted close to 6000 hunters and their families.
13th July 2020 DOC / HuntingHunting operators have welcomed a High Court ruling instructing the Department of Conservation to undertake further consultation on its 2020-2021 tahr culling plans.
6th July 2020 DOC / HuntingHunting operators have thrown their weight behind a Tahr Foundation campaign which will see the Department of Conservation’s new tahr-culling operation challenged in the High Court this week.
1st July 2020 DOC / HuntingTourism businesses and rural communities will be undermined by DOC’s new tahr cull, according to ACT’s firearms and outdoors spokesperson Nicole McKee.
21st May 2020 Hunting / RecoveryNew Zealand’s guided hunting industry is appealing for support from domestic hunters as it struggles through the Covid-19 crisis.
5th May 2020 HuntingThe New Zealand Professional Hunting Guides Association and Game Animal Council is urging the Government to ease domestic travel restrictions in alert level 2.
23rd April 2020 DOC / HuntingHunters will be able to hunt on private land with special restrictions when New Zealand moves to Covid-19 alert level 3 but not on public conservation land.
6th April 2020 Covid-19 / HuntingA new Government Order has banned hunting while New Zealand remains in level four lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis.
