Southland NZDA

24/09/2026

Cool to see Tom representing Nz best of luck from Southland Nzda

27/08/2026

Our first rat trapping trip of the year to help protect our native birds at Mason Bay on Stewart Island has resulted in 169 rats being removed from the environment, which is a great result. The first trip of the year is always a challenge for our volunteers with Winter weather and +300 traps to get up and running. Thank you to our volunteers for this trip Craig, Kerri, Garry and Tony, and a big thank you to our financial sponsors of this work Hunting & Fishing Invercargill and Back Country Cuisine. We couldn’t do this work without their support, so please support the brands that support us.

27/07/2026

06/07/2026

Entries are open!
Still thinking about entering? Now’s the time to get your team together and secure your spot in the first-ever Menzies Rugby Hunting Competition. Whether you’re in it for the competition, the cash prizes, a weekend away with your mates, or simply to support Menzies Rugby, we’d love to see you there!
Simply complete the online entry form using the link below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaYxO3RCrl0w51tT7lcOklf3oykyTP9KToOa-ngEt_Im4bGw/viewform
Or scan the QR code on our competition poster.
📅 Entries close: 9:00pm, Thursday 16 July
Tag your hunting crew and get those entries in!

25/06/2026

Today marks an important milestone for game animal management in New Zealand, with the passing of the Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill.

The Bill provides for Herds of Special Interest to be designated and managed in national parks, while ensuring conservation values continue to be protected.

This is the next step ahead of the potential designation of New Zealand’s first Herds of Special Interest (HOSI), subject to Ministerial decision-making. HOSI legislation under the Game Animal Council Act enables game animals to be valued – the first and only of its type in New Zealand. This is a step towards implementing management that considers hunting values and the value of game animals.

This is a significant step forward. It recognises that hunting and its values can make an important and positive game animal management and conservation contribution in our national parks.

Hunters already contribute a lot of time, knowledge, effort and money to managing game animals and supporting conservation work across the country. HOSI gives us a way to better strengthen that contribution.

In the right places and for our most valued game animal herds, this approach can deliver better herd management, quality hunting experiences and better conservation outcomes.

We want to thank everyone across the hunting community who submitted, advocated and helped make the case for a more modern and practical approach to game animal management.

We now look forward to the Minister’s decisions on the proposed first Herds of Special Interest for Fiordland wapiti and Central North Island sika.

22/06/2026

Menzies Rugby Committee, along with our main event sponsor Three Rivers Contracting and other named sponsors (which we will feature on this page soon) are proud to bring you the Menzies Rugby Hunting competition.

We are officially locked and loaded for what will be an exciting weekend of hunting, along with a family orientated community event at the official weigh in. Activities, raffles & auctions, along with some pretty amazing spot prizes will be on offer!

The Competition will begin 4pm Friday 17th July 2026 ( last weekend of the school holidays) with the weigh in event to be held at Wyndham Rugby Club from 1-3pm, Sunday 19th July. Prizegiving to follow.

Please share with your mates! this is shaping up to be a great competition, as well as a great community fundraiser event for Menzies Rugby.

To enter :

Scan the QR code on the poster / flyer and fill in the Google form, or follow the link : https://forms.gle/tHn4rJEAEDdzWuVg8
* Bank account details are provided in the Form.

Entries close THURSDAY 16th July, 9pm.

Thank you!

20/06/2026

MentalHunts 101: Practical, evidence based training for NZ’s fi****ms community. Breaking stigma, building awareness, and supporting safer, stronger wellbeing.

20/06/2026

Registration for the ELR match. Follow the link to impact scoring where you will be able to fill out the registration form and find payment details under match information.

https://link.impactscoring.net/goto/match/view?id=9801

17/06/2026

Absolute Pleasure to have Glen Thurston from Mental Hunts along to our branch meeting last night . We appreciate all the work and politics your dealing with on licensed fi****ms holders behalf in the back round and the work you'r personally putting into education. Weather your a hunter or not one thing resonated from you'r presentation
"We've all got some form of first aid training but how many have any training in Mental Health "
Thanks again Glen and the Mental Hunts team

10/06/2026