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A young female kiwi was killed by two feral dogs in the Maungataniwha Native Forest in central Hawke s Bay last month on a property owned by conservation group the Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust.
The bird, Orotika, came from an egg recovered in 2017 as part of the national Operation Nest Egg kiwi conservation initiative, and was released into the Maungataniwha Native Forest in 2018.
Manager at the trust Pete Shaw said staff members heard dogs barking while doing kiwi listening to count numbers of the protected birds. They put trail cameras out later and discovered the two dogs.
Shaw said the bird was found dead on the road soon after.
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Senior Mongols MC gang member appears in court after year on the run
(Photo / NZ Herald) Thu, 20 May 2021, 1:38PM
A senior Mongols motorcycle gang member arrested after police said he was on the run for nearly a year has appeared in court.
The 27-year-old man, who was granted interim name suppression this morning, was arrested at a Waipara address in North Canterbury just after 4.30pm yesterday.
Detective Inspector Paul Newman of the police national organised crime group said in a statement last night that a MSSA (military-style semi-automatic) firearm was also found at the address.
The man first had warrants for his arrest issued in Auckland last May.