Bird Life In National Parks
Bird life is reported to be increasing in both the Mount Cook and Fiordland national parks as the result of the trapping of cats, ferrets weasels, and stoats, says the annual report of the Lands and Survey Department. Trapping has beei. reasonably successful although finding a method of wholesale destruction, of the pests remains a problem, as the nature of the country in the parks precludes systematic methods, and the pests are known to migrate from different areas searching for prey. In Fiordland investigators on Resolution Island and other islands in Dusky Sound found stoats on all of them. At Mount Cook national park, members of the South Canterbury Deerstalkers’ Association, who have already destroyed several hundred thar, some chamois, and a few deer in the park, are to undertake all shooting of small introduced animals of prey for one season as a trial.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 10
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