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Heli-hunting with paying clients will be of short term financial benifit to several operators although hugely detremental to the game resource in alpine areas. If allowed, these areas of public land will be shot out of mature Bull Thar and Chamois Bucks in a short period of time. The heli operators will not care, as they will have made some fast bucks, while recreational foot hunters will struggle to find mature animals.. as with deer etc. Thar & Chamois need time & hunter restraint to produce good trophies.

No other country I know of would allow people to harvest animals in such a way. Although non-native species, Thar & Chamois if managed correctly are a great national asset, in the eyes of many tens of thousands of kiwis anyway.

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Petition signed.

What a destruction of a public hunting resource if it happens.