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It’s been 15 years since kiwi were reintroduced back into the Remutaka Forest and from the initial release of six birds, it’s estimated the population has soared to 150.
The Remutaka Conservation Trust is celebrating the success of the project – it’s a result years in the making, says volunteer and kiwi project leader Susan Ellis.
“In the early 2000s, the head of the kiwi recovery group at the time gave a talk to us and they had a bit of an issue, they had all of these brown kiwi in captivity that they no longer wanted for breeding purposes, so they were surplus to requirements,” Ellis says.
The New Zealand Police were aided with cooperation form the Australian Federal Police’s newly-formed Fugitive Action Strike Team (FAST) which tracked and located the male in the state of Victoria, Newman said. “These transnational syndicates work across borders and have relied previously on the difficulties of Law Enforcement from different countries working across different jurisdictions,” Newman said.
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Police have also seized over $1million in cash during their investigation. The detective inspector said this latest arrest was a great example of both countries are working together to hold transnational criminals to account. According to the Australian Associated Press the man had moved to a rural Victorian town in 2019 before he was arrested on April 29 and is now subject to an extradition process to New Zealand.