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 ...

DOC’s Himalayan tahr programme has taken a different approach to previous years, leaving some management units to hunters. (File photo). Photo: John Bisset / Stuff The Department of Conservation has ...

The Department of Conservation has confirmed 7400 tahr kills on public conservation land for the culling season, but it is likely still some way off reducing the population to its 10,000 target.

The Department of Conservation's new plan to manage Himalayan tahr numbers means hunters will play a bigger part in the management. Photo / NZH The Department of Conservation's new plan to manage ...

Forest & Bird is alarmed that some conservation land where tahr numbers need to be reduced is excluded from the plan for control operations this year. The Department of Conservation yesterday released ...

Deb and Wayne Hall purchased a trip of a lifetime from the Safari Club International’s Kansas City chapter to hunt red stag, chamois, tahr and alpine goats in New Zealand. Leaving KCI on July 10, it ...