DOC is working with Ngāi Tahu and the Tahr Plan Implementation Liaison Group (TPILG), to over time reduce the size of the tahr population back within the limits of the Himalayan Thar Control Plan 1993.
Work is underway to protect conservation areas including Aoraki/Mount Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks from the impacts of Himalayan tahr.
There will continue to be thousands of tahr for hunters across 425,000 ha of public conservation land outside of the national parks, and 133,000 ha of Crown pastoral leases and private land.
Learn about tahr control operations, and find maps where bull tahr have been sighted.
International travel with hunting trophies
You may need CITES documentation to enter or leave New Zealand with your hunting trophy.
Himalayan tahr updates
Himalayan tahr updates are included in our wild animals management newsletter. Subscribe to our e-newsletter and stay up-to-date.
View tahr hunting updates previously sent to recreational hunters who held a permit to hunt on public conservation land: