The Lower North island Red Deer Foundation Incorporated is now registered formally as an Incorporated society.

Our registration number 2638322

Bank accounts have been established and we are now in a position to accept donations to support the current legal challenge of DOCs decisions in the Lower North Island forest parks.


The Kiwibank account number is 38-9017-0707871-01

Click this link to go to make a donation

https://www.cognitoforms.com/LowerNorthIslandRedDeerFoundation/DONATIONSFORLNIRD...

https://www.cognitoforms.com/LowerNorthIslandRedDeerFoundation/LNIRDFDONATIONS

The long standing issue facing the foundation is getting DOC to reverse the removal of Closed status in areas of the Tararua, Rimutaka forest parks and also the eastern Wairarapa reserves. These areas are very popular with hunters and WARO has been excluded for the last 30 years. The other major issue regarding WARO was the removal of restrictions to WARO in the Ruahine forest park.

The predecessor to the foundation, (the Lower North Island Hunter Liaison Group) put considerable effort into getting DOC to reverse these changes that would have a major effect on recreational hunting in the Ruahines.

As a result of political lobbying by the Liaison Group, discussions between DOC and hunters with support from the Game Animal Council resulted in the Ruahine WARO permit changes being reversed.

A very rare thing to happen when dealing with DOC!

Without taking DOC to task, there wouldn’t have been and changes DOCs decisions to allow WARO helicopters into places in the Ruahines that had been set aside for recreational hunters for many years.

The battle is not over yet and the foundation is now mounting a legal challenge to reverse the Tararua/Rimutaka WARO changes. There are also still fish hooks in the reversal of the Ruahine back down by DOC which need to be addressed. To date we have engaged legal firm DLA Piper to represent the foundation in this process. The next step pending is to file a statement of claim with the court to get a judicial review underway.

The process is predictably expensive for volunteers, and donations are welcome from supporters to cover efforts to challenge the 2015 WARO WARP permit outcomes including costs associated with the pending court lodgement of a Judicial review. The aim of the review is to right the wrongs done and to achieve a just regime for recreational hunters in all the areas.

To date we have spent $10400 in costs, some of which has been funded by the collective hunting clubs that comprise the foundation. In order lodge a claim for a judicial review with the court up to a further $5000 is required. If the issue is not settled at this stage, then we have the prospect of going to court, which result in more costs to the foundation. Our legal advice is that a judicial review of DOCs decisions has merit.

The foundation is seeking other contributors to this process, however every bit of financial support was can get from hunters will help us correct these wrongs that has occurred to our places we hunt.

All donors will be automatically registered as form members of the foundation as a Supporter.

The Purposes of the foundation are
to advocate for enhanced recreational hunting opportunities and sustainable  management policies and practices which meet both conservation and recreational hunting aspirations; and

to participate in and assist with conservation research particularly in the lower  North Island.

The foundation will have a committee comprised of “Corporate Members”, that will be hunting club representative’s and also “Individual Members”. There is also provision for “Supporter Members”.

There is no joining fee and we will be seeking Supporter membership once the committee has had the inaugural AGM and sorted a few rules etc.

Doners can claim one third as a tax credit I believe?

So make it generous.. 

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will check, Anchovy

ps, by liabilities , do you mean from supporting the legal challenge financially?

Will donate.

As an aside, it puzzles me that the likes of the (major?) equipment distributors and retailers don't seem to be active in either financial support, or advocacy? Given the likes of the Hunting and Fishing chain of franchises rely heavily on the hunting fraternity for their livelihood I would have expected to see and hear more from them on issues like this? 

I'll make a donation.  But I tried the link and got this error message - Form not found! Sorry, the form you are looking for no longer exists.

Just done it $100.00

I stuffed it up, made a change but didn't change the link!! all ok now

I'm in also, will dep. funds tomorrow. We have sufficient deer on our block for friends, rellies and ourselves, but must help to protect and conserve deer on public land for the ongoing benefit of all NZ hunters.