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Members of the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation exit a hovering Southern Lakes Helicopter, piloted by Chris Green, at the head of Fiordland's Worsley River on Saturday.
Paul Peychers, Dave Shaw and Jimmy Robertson were part of a team that spent the weekend checking about 200 stoat traps on a 32km line in the wilderness area.
Foundation vice-president Ron Peacock said it was made up of recreational hunters who worked in conjunction with the Department of Conservation to trap stoats and cull red deer in the Worsley Valley.
They had killed 337 stoats, which kill native birds and wildlife, since 2005.
The area the volunteers work in is inhabited by the most southern wapiti herd in the world.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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