New Zealand Travel - nz - On the dark side of the New Zealand paradise

In addition to killing possums, hunting of wild pigs is popular in New Zealand; about a quarter of the population are hunters, fishers, and/or shooters. Like deer in the US, you have to have hunters to control populations, because pigs don't have any natural enemies there. (Unlike the US, where the predators -- wolves, bears, and pumas -- have mostly been killed off by humans, there were never any natural predators for pigs in NZ, because they're not native to the islands but were introduced by humans.) I leave you with something any number of blogospherians will appreciate:

In this climate, anti-bloodsports groups struggle to make their voices heard. Protesters who pursued duck shooters down the Waikato River a few years ago fled after the sportsmen turned their guns on them.