NZDA Policy on Poisons and Toxins
NZDA’s current position on poisons and toxins
(Conference 2002, Hamilton, adopted in the Annual Report)
- NZDA reaffirms its role as the advocate for New Zealand’s valued game animals.
- NZDA will cooperate with the Government and other official organisations in the solution of New Zealand’s conservation and animal health problems but will be unequivocal in opposition to poison as a non-selective killer of game animals.
- NZDA rejects the argument that limited ‘by-kill’ is an acceptable cost of poisoning campaigns and demands that alternate methods for controlling the target pest species be developed and used.
Summary: The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association opposes, categorically, the use of poison when used in such a way as to kill game animals deliberately or otherwise.
This Policy was ratified most recently by annual conferences up to and including the 2017 Conference.