Nelson City Council

Front Country Ungulate Cull RFP - NCC Jan 2023

The front country of Nelson has a large population of wild ungulates who are impacting on our ecological values, our track network and poaching of these animals has been reported on private and public land. We need a professional hunting contractor to undertake a cull of these animals. Health and Safety and communications are a priority for this work.

The primary objective of ungulate culling in defined Nelson Council Reserves is to protect palatable native species from being browsed by introduced herbivores. The purpose for the cull is to enable our native ecosystems to develop the full range of species and expected structural elements that would naturally occur.