Hawaiʻiʻs Axis Deer - From invasive species to food source 

That are not native to the islands, might as well introduce lions , leopards, and hyenas

@@lilcourtny08 Nature will manage it well. Tigers even thrive in Tundra, so they will be happy to manage themselves and the deers as well, 🙂.

Exactly! These people have created a problem to become savors. "The land owners" lock out the kanaka hunters to put a profit on the so called problem deer population. Instead of selling the deer meat how about promoting youth hunts, native rights hunts. Stop locking out the Hawaiians of there own land and FOOD source. Don't be fooled by the movie production video.

Mahalo! The small amount of inedible portions that can't be used are disposed of in accordance with Federal and State regulations.

Keep your hands for masturbating....we don't need your help.

They actually sell their venison at a steep discount to locals. Before you judge them, you should do some actual research.

Did federal and state agencies recognize the damage? Absolutely. Who do you think has funded and managed literally thousands of projects that provide education and research necessary to understand and improve Hawaii's ecological management; implement and enforce environmental regulations for land owners; ensure food safety; and not least, provide the entire framework that's necessary for a small independent program like this to work? You seem to suggest a program like this could simply pop up and function smoothly on its own. Not a chance. These guys are operating within legal, scientific, and commercial frameworks that balance competing interests and resolve conflicts. At some point, communities have needs that aren't met by the volunteer fire department and they decide to hire professionals, a full time fire department equipped and specialized for the job. People don't put up with it. People want it. Likewise, Hawaii's land and animal government agencies are professionals hired to perform functions and roles agreed upon by the free society. They are not restricting and burdening anyone. They are empowered by the people and strongly supported by the people as the way to enable solutions like this one, as well as more direct government programs such as agriculture inspections at Hawaii's airports. Free people freely decided that funding community resources is best and they freely electing people to lead the effort. Some might have learned that governments are often he best way to get things done. Often that happens after business had their chance and messed up royally. If you want to examine past approaches that didn't have all that "governing others" and oversight, learn about meatpacking before the USDA or study he sugar industry on Maui and the oh-so-wonderful solutions that business created for the island without any of those burdensome enforcers getting in the way.

@@tubbytuber "Hawaii's ecological management, implement and enforce ... the entire framework ...for a small independent program like this..." You make my point that business is not free, not fundamentally controlled by the owner, NOT independently owned property. The so-called owner is a manager of a business owned, i.e., controlled, by an elite, i.e., govt., i.e., elected rulers. Even when they fail so badly that the entire country (Nazi Germany) or city (Hiroshima/Nagasaki) is turned into dust and tens of millions of "the people" die, the superstition that coercive govt. is better than voluntary govt. based on reason/rights will not be abandoned. Why? The law is ultimately force dressed up as reason and when a particular law is proved logically to be irrational, counter productive for order, the final reply by coercive govt. is not to defer to reason but to remind the protester, "the law is the law", i.e., obey or die. The scientific or commercial framework is irrelevant to bureaucracy. So is "the balance of competing interests". Competition for market share is only found in capitalism, which has been replaced by socialism in every country, Society's needs are NOT met by the master/slave, i.e., ruler/ruled paradigm. Mutual respect maximizes productivity and happiness. Particularly when that respect for life/liberty is realized by property rights. Socialism denies the right to property. Libertarianism doesn't. It's time to try a new political paradigm.

@Richard Gilley Yes, people wish they could have it all, everything the way they want. But the world is built on compromise. Usually through a government. Or through professionals ie the people put in charge. If you don't like the way things are being decided at least in Hawaii you can speak out and try to affect changes. Run for office. Get trained as a professional. Change how things get done. It's funny you think people have the right to decide what happens on "their own lands," well it takes a government to make sure that land remains yours... so from there it's just a matter of where you draw the lines. Should it be illegal for ME to build a house or start fires on "your land?" Should it be illegal for you to build a nuclear reactor on "your land?"

Or even just a few dozen cougars, they’d handle that axis deer population extremely proficiently.

No it's not needed. The ocean and land full of animals and food, a culture to tie it all together. That doesn't make people wealthy though.

@Glum Sullen The fire ant. They bite, I pay money to eliminate them and I can't feed my family with ants, Call this an invasive pest. Do the deer harm the ecosystem, yes. Ide argue less than invasive humans building hundreds of homes but that's not the point. What the point is they are food and a part of a culture in hawaii that is the ability to live with the land not off it. I think the problem lies with not enough public local hunting opportunities, lots of deer bc we can't hunt them on private.

Me two I thought I would see Joe rogan