by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 24, 2021 | Editor's pick, News
The Department of Conservation (DOC) is urging deer hunters to take care during the peak of the roar this Easter weekend, as data shows a spike in hunting activity leads to an increase in injuries. With last year’s roar hunt cancelled due to the COVID-19 Level 4...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 22, 2021 | Editor's pick, News
The Game Animal Council (GAC) has launched an online resource to help hunters implement good game animal management practices and achieve beneficial hunting and conservation outcomes. “Looking After Our Game Animals is intended to explain in simple terms how deer,...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 15, 2021 | Editor's pick, News
With the ‘roar’ season fast approaching, the Game Animal Council is advising hunters to be well prepared ahead of their autumn hunting trips. After the 2020 season was interrupted due to the COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown, hunters are looking forward to this year’s...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 12, 2021 | News
A proposal being developed by the hunting sector for a science-based management programme for sika deer in the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Forest Parks is said to benefit both hunting and conservation The programme is led by the Central North Island Sika Foundation with...
by Lisa Potter | Mar 12, 2021 | Events, Features
It was anything but a quiet weekend on Lake Karapiro at the recent 2021 Hydro Thunder GP Hydroplane Series and 96th Masport Cup. The deafening roar of high-octane action shattered the usually hushed lakeside as cheering crowds and fans screamed out their encouragement...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 11, 2021 | Archive, Editor's pick
Saving the last of the giants, the mighty kauri, is our responsibility. And there are thousands of Kiwis passionate about encouraging people understand and build awareness around the importance of correctly using the kauri dieback cleaning stations installed. One such...
by Ben Hope | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
It was just going to be an evening hunt, but it inadvertently ended up being an overnight trip. It so happened just a few years ago on an overcast autumn evening, I was headed up into the hills on a high-country station to photograph a stag. My Labrador and I...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 10, 2021 | News
Recent images of thousands of fish dying in an Otago stream and estuary are symptomatic of regional councils across the country failing to manage the environmental impacts of land-use on our waterways, Fish & Game New Zealand said. “This environmental tragedy...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, NZ made
In 1977, boaties in New Zealand knew little about floating docks. Back then, most preferred to use tidal grids – a task that took up to eight hours, waiting for the tide to come and go, so when Don Thom, an engineer by profession, designed and built the floating dock,...
by Lisa Potter | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features
Sarni Hart was once an Auckland city dweller. But a desire to give her three young children more of a ‘great Kiwi outdoors’ upbringing saw her up sticks and move across the water to Coromandel, taking a puntthat they would all adapt to small-town living. Having...
