I turn the riflescope down to the lowest power, adjust the bipod, and try to settle into a stable shooting position on the steep rock face. “He’s heading right for us,” says my 21-year-old guide Ben ...

Tahr at Aoraki/Mt Cook National park. The Department of Conservation has a policy of “zero density” of the animal within national parks. (File photo). Photo: John Bisset / Stuff Hunting organisations ...

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 ...

Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has been forced to postpone the mass tahr cull she ordered to start this weekend because of huge pressure from recreational hunting and tourism industry, National’s ...

A group of recreational hunters are a threatening a High Court injunction to thwart the Department of Conservation's proposed mass Himalayan tahr cull. The New Zealand Tahr Foundation, a consortium of ...

Government restrictions on where helicopters can fly make it difficult for hunters to find other places to hunt tahr, according to Tahr Foundation chairman Snow Hewetson. In a statement yesterday, New ...

A hunter in New Zealand proves just how remarkably the Himalayan tahr can blend into their environment in a video filmed while out on a shoot. At first, the opening moments of Brett Langford's short ...

The Department of Conservation (DoC) will this week begin a controversial programme to cull 10,000 Himalayan tahr over the next eight months. Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage had earlier flagged her ...

The Department of Conservation has cancelled balloted tahr hunting opportunities for recreational hunters in Wilderness areas and Westland Tai Poutini National Park this summer. Its planned tahr cull ...

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