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Political Interventions Impacting On Profitability

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Political interventions impacting on profitability
During the early 1900’s the introduction of many different types of deer were introduced to New Zealand for sport. These included the Red Deer, Wapiti, Fallow, Sambar, Sika, Rusa, White-tailed deer and moose. However by the early 2000’s Red Deer were the most common breed to be found in the wild. These deer were released into an environment where they had no predators unlike the characteristics of their origins. This meant that the numbers of deer sky-rocketed and began to have serious impacts depleting the native scrub and pastoral farmland. In 1930 the department of internal affairs (who had been put in charge of solving the increasing deer numbers) set up a team of government cullers to control the wild deer populations. However deer populations continued to rise and by the 1950’s a team of 125 men killed 50,000 deer a year without impacting the overall populations. By the 1960s, wild deer populations were out of control and venison prices at the time were around 20 cents a kg. This meant that many people decided that they could make a comfortable living hunting deer for the meat. In 1969 the Noxious Animals Act passed which meant that deer were no longer classified as wild animals. Deer Farming Regulations were introduced providing opportunities for the licensing of deer farms. The first Deer farming license was given in 1970. In the 1970’s venison prices soared to more than $2 per kg which resulted in the ‘venison

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