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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Mountain tahr have become a major threat to ecosystems in alpine areas, the Department of Conservation says. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery There are fears the Government will move on to deer once it has ...

A protest over DOC's new tahr culling programme brought traffic to a crawl in the Mackenzie District yesterday. The New Zealand Tahr Hunting Foundation wants an end to the programme to eliminate the ...

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 ...

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 ...