New Zealand Hunting News

» Fight to save bird from chef
31/08/10 17:30 from New Zealand Herald - Hunting
French ornithologists are waging an increasingly sophisticated war against the hunting of the ortolan, a songbird which is regarded by gastronomes - when eaten beak, bones and all - as the ultimate in sinful pleasure.Over the...

» Fishing: Liquid gold
28/08/10 17:30 from New Zealand Herald - Recreational fishing
It was just a shadow passing across the blurred white line under the water. Then another thin shadow appeared, and another, then a mass of tiny, wriggling fish.The man grasped the long handle of his net and steadily scooped up...

» Fishing: Time warp
21/08/10 17:30 from New Zealand Herald - Recreational fishing
The boy cast awkwardly, the line flopping into the brown water. The old man watched as the boy looked into the water anxiously, then pulled a short length of line into the old clinker dinghy. The line jerked and the boy hauled on...

» Shooting: Reid eighth in rifle event
21/07/10 16:25 from New Zealand Herald - Shooting sports
Wellington's Greg Reid finished eighth in a rifle event at the paralympic shooting world championships in Bonn, Germany, yesterday.Competing in a field of 71 in the 10m air rifle prone, Reid scored 599 out of a possible 600 and...

» Miners plan to repair and regenerate
26/03/10 16:00 from New Zealand Herald - Fish & Game
OceanaGold freely admits open-cast mining is not a pretty business. In Otago the company has blasted, gouged and tunnelled its way through schist to move over half a billion tonnes of the countryside. This redistribution has...