The Tahr Statue

Life Sized statue

An interesting statue located on the side of the shop. It can be easy to miss if you didn't know this was here. An interesting statue and it leads to a nice viewpoint of Mount Cook if the weather co-o...

History

We stopped at Mt Cook alpine salmon and see the statue with a bit of history next to it. Its good to know more history of the area.

The Tahr sheep has a chequered history in New Zealand

From eleven animals, the Tahr grew to almost plague proportions, and necessitated culling procedures. Today there is reasonable control of numbers with only occasional culling, but on a world wide sca...

interesting story about the Tahr sheep

History of this Himalayan Tahr sheep in New Zealand is very interesting. From 2 herds of total 11 animals to 40,000 then dropped to 1000, human beings had played a dominant role in changing their popu...

An interesting monument.

This is a rather odd, yet interesting, monument, commemorating the introduction of this wild goat to New Zealand over a century ago.