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 ...

Tahr were introduced to New Zealand in the early days of European settlement for sport, but are now a threat to native flora and fauna. Photo / File The Department of Conservation (DoC ...

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 ...

The New Zealand Tahr Foundation (NZTF) had filed judicial review proceedings against the Minister of Conservation and Director-General of Conservation in respect of DOC’s Tahr Control ...

An initial proposal had DOC culling up to 10,000 tahr, with another 7500 being culled by other interest groups. That proposal drew flak from organisations including the New Zealand Deerstalkers ...

Tahr, or Himalayan mountain goat, was introduced to New Zealand along with chamois in the early days of European settlement. These days it is considered a pest in some reserves and the New Zealand ...

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 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.