What a great break that was! We ran a It has been a huge roller-coaster ride with the fight for common sense conservation and bureaucracy occupying such a large chunk of our time. The years have flown, and we really are making some gains now with the current government seeing the value in what we've been saying for many years. I know I'm preaching to the converted with our readers, but hey, I've got a captive audience so you've gotta listen!
The public of New Zealand are largely oblivious to what we dogone, than have a hunter led group like the FWF doing it. The principle of hunters paying to do deer control and run other conservation programs had him in a tailspin. Unfortunately people like him are most unlikely to change their minds, but there are plenty of sensible pragmatic New Zealanders who will see the win win here if only we can get the message out. And that's where we can all help out. Any time you get the chance to help educate the uninformed, please take the time to do so in as nonconfrontational manner as possible. Remember, we are the good guys who are actually putting feet on the ground in a lot of remote places where no one else is doing any conservation work - including the Department of Conservation.
