Goat & Pig culls 
(Coming soon)
Goats in the Greenbelt
Latest News (June 2009)
To date the Wellington City Council cull figures for goats and pigs are similar every year. For the last three years close to 500 goats have been shot by the contractors and a varying amount of pigs from 5 to 16. The cull figures from the recently held event in 2009 are not yet available.
It is not known if the Greater Wellington Regional Council has similar cull figures or even if they engage in goat culls, as they are unable/unwilling so far to provide us with the figures.
Summary
Presently is an ongoing passive campaign to explore the results of years of culling and to introduce the WCC and the GWRC to other ideas of non-lethal sustainable control.
The Wellington City Council has a 10 year plan for pest control, issued in 2005. This plan includes the annual cull (kill) of all goats and pigs found in greenbelt areas. Contractors are hired to shoot and dispose of all the goats and pigs they see in the designated areas once every year.
This plan does not appear to be revisited after each culling event, but just carries on in the vague hope that it will work. We do not believe it will work, we believe that similar principles of population control apply to wild mammals as that of birds. We believe the council is making the
problem worse and seek to encourage them, at the very least, to combine this plan with non-lethal sustainable controls, like fencing or contraception and enforcing non-escape laws on domestic goat farmers.
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