Survival of wapiti
Sir, — 1 wonder how many other readers momentarily allowed themselves to hope that your headings and captions on deer in Fiordland (January 23) indicated a move to save the graceful, appealing wapiti, whose chances of survival in New Zealand look grim. But no; the deerstalkers only want to protect and breed the deer so that there will be more of them available for killing. The balancing of vegetation is surely a nonissue. I think we can trust Nature to attend to that After all, Frenchmen could argue that if they did not eat frogs, they might be over-run by them. Everyone to his taste, of course, but what “gets” me is that New Zealand hunters still continue to enjoy an activity as destructive as the shooting of these gentle-eyed creatures, which have the same right to life as we have, and to call this hobby, a “recreation.” — Yours, etc.,
N. W. MILANOVICH January 23, 1979.
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