We started this project as the field work portion of my MSc. This website is meant to be a landing site for all of those involved to get fresh updates on how the project is going and what we’ve managed to achieve.
The premise of my Masters research is to investigate new ways of managing our native Kāhu where they are causing harm to other wildlife. In future, such methods may also be used to protect domestic animals and stock too.
Following the 2012 Notice to the Wildlife Act 1953 concerning Australasian Harriers, Kāhu have been increasingly persecuted for their natural behaviour as predators and scavengers.
Lethal control is the most popular and ‘effective’ method used to date. But the reality is that Kāhu are nomadic, and as soon as one is removed from an area, a new individual takes it’s place.
The Kāhu Project 