Preservation for hunting
. Sir, — Mr Candy’s, assertions,. (August 5) that ‘Conservationists’ should be ’concerned over poisons and disappointed over the protection of Sambar deer are
both correct. The Canterbury branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society sent successful remits on poisoning and damage by deer to the society’s annual meeting last June, and he can : take comfort in the fact that we will demonstrate in future (as the society has done in the past) that deer preservation for recreational hunting does indeed conflict with other recreational uses. Apart from the primary consideration that wild animals could not have caused any damage if ignorant persons had not introduced them in the first place, I shall cite the Fiordland National Park and Stewart Island as two areas where wild animals have done far more damage than humans. — Yours, etc., P. A. G. HOWELL. August 5, 1980.
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