The Hunting Show

Well known Kiwi Sika Hunter Jamie Fairbairn comes from a long line of Sika hunters his page is dedicated to all those Sika hunters who love hunting those great animals, Jamie also takes a lot of people hunting. Tune into this show and let Jamie pass on some of his knowledge, and tells us a couple of yarns. Jamie also writes for NZ OUTDOOR Hunting Magazine, well worth checking out this great New Zealand Mag. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sika-Hunters-New-Zealand http://www.nzoutdoor.co.nz Check out this listeners (Alan Johnson from the UK) Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/danumblades

This week a Interview with Tim Dunn creater off the HUNTAPOINT APP, find out whats its for and how it could help you! HUNTAPOINT IS 100% COMMITTED TO PROVIDING NEW ZEALAND WITH THE MOST POWERFULL, TEHCNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED HUNTING SMARTPHONE APPLICATION ON THE MARKET. OUR APP IS LOADED WITH HUNDREDS OF HUNTING LOCATIONS IN 16 NEW ZEALAND REGIONS AND INTEGRATED INTO OUR UNIQUE OFFLINE MEMORY TOPOMAP SYSTEM, ALL OF THIS TECHNOLOGY IS ACCESSED AT THE EASE OF YOUR FINGERTIPS. HUNTAPOINT ENSURES USERS CAN EASILY NAVIGATE AND RESEARCH HUNTING POINTS. See http://huntapoint.com for more info. https://www.facebook.com/Huntapoint

From the ABC's Bush Telegraph with Cameron Wilson, Young Australian volunteers unwittingly paying to prop up 'cruel' canned hunting industry: South African conservationist. oung Australian volunteers are flying to South Africa and helping to raise lion cubs in the belief that they are going to be released back into the wild, only for those lions to be used purely for canned hunting purposes. That is the allegation of Ian Michler, a South African journalist and conservationist who has lobbied internationally to close down the canned hunting industry. 'A lot of young students are being lured over there, they are paying up to $1,000 a week to breeders to go and work in these properties on the grounds that they are doing something constructive for conservation,' said Mr Michler. 'It's a con.' Canned hunting takes place in confined environments, where animals, most commonly lions, have been bred to be killed. It differs from more traditional 'fair-chase' hunting, where the hunt takes place in an area large enough for the animal to have a chance of escape. 'In this day and age, where everything is on demand, canned hunting is a form where you can get your animal a lot cheaper, you can get it in a shorter period of time, and it is guaranteed,' said Mr Michler. 'The animal has no chance of escape.' Thank you to the ABC's Bush Telegraph for this Audio

Interview with Josh James Kiwi Bushman, find out who he is, what he does and his love for bow hunting. His aim is to start a television show so he can do hunt and fish for a living and share the stuff that he does with the rest of NZ and the world. He spent his childhood years growing up in Napier south. Although he was a city kid my brothers and he spent every spare moment playing on the city outskirts pedalling their BMX’s far and wide to go fishing at the wharf or rabbit hunting at the old winery. Josh was a bit of a ratbag when he was a teenager and left home and school at the age of 14 to go work in the forestry and sheep shearing industry, as well as doing a heap of other odd jobs along the way. Josh discovered white water rafting in 1997 and this led me to the West Coast, He instantly fell in love with the wild and rugged beauty of the place, and back then there were deer running round all over the shop and the amount of crystal clear rivers was staggering, as were the fishing and hunting opportunities. There were possums in the bush back then as well so if a bloke ever ran short of a buck he could go bush for a few weeks and make enough dollars to gas the vehicle up and pay for food, beer and ammo. In the winters Josh was working in different countries around the world rafting and spending the spring and autumn in the bush hunting deer and trapping possums. http://thekiwibushman.co.nz/ https://www.facebook.com/joshjamesnzhunter https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynWet3zR-Yu7xUVHjFq6hA

EP 9 - Interview with Professor Neil J. Gemmell - H.O.D of Anatomy University of Otago Could this be an alternative to 1080? Down load to find out! Biological control is widely used in the control and eradication of plant and animal species. Among the most common forms of biological control are a group of approaches that aim to control or eradicate population/species by reducing the fertility and reproductive capacity of a population/species. To date the most successful of these approaches has been the Sterile Male Technique. In this approach large quantities of sterile males are released into a population each generation. If released in sufficient numbers these males monopolise matings with females, but because they are sterile no progeny are produced resulting in a reduction in the population size. The main problem with current Sterile Male approaches is that sterile males need to be produced and released every year. The Trojan Female Technique uses mitochondrial DNA mutations that affect male, but not female fertility and fitness, circumventing this problem producing continuous, self-sustaining biological control. The TFT is a novel twist of the classic “Sterile Male” technique currently used in biocontrol. The essence of our idea is to use mitochondrial mutations that greatly affect male, but not female, fertility to produce continuous, self-sustaining biological control. Key advantages of TFT are: No extensive use of genetic modification,No elaborate delivery system e.g. parasitic vectors and intermediate hosts,Species specific.Little (no?) danger of accidental release or cross-species transmission