But for outdoorsmen looking for a test-your-limits hunt in the mountains, it doesn’t get much better than tahr in the Southern Alps. (Read more about mountain hunting in New Zealand here). Himalayan ...

Pog, Don and Hilary think it’s important because there are more tahr and chamois in New Zealand than in the countries from which they came from. There are few tahr in the Himalayas and few ...

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 ...

Hunting & Fishing New Zealand, today called on the Government to immediately halt its controversial tahr culling programme, get back around the table and work constructively with interested ...

A long-term plan is being developed to control Himalayan tahr in the South Island. The Department of Conservation (DOC) said the large goat-like animals, introduced to New Zealand during the early ...

The New Zealand Conservation Authority (NZCA) fully supports the Department of Conservation in their operations to cull all tahr, as far as possible, in the Aoraki/Mt Cook and Westland Tai Poutini ...

Tahr numbers have increased substantially since 1993. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery New Zealand's native flora evolved without ungulates (deer, chamois, tahr, goats, merinos) and did not develop many ...

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 ...

Tahr could be a "premium quality, ethically-sourced delicious food" that played on New Zealand's clean, green marketing, Mack said. The goat-like tahr were introduced to New Zealand in 1904 and ...

The land is young and new in New Zealand, risen from the sea ... They imported chamois and Himalayan tahr, sheep, goats, hares and more. They brought in new trees and shrubs and crops.