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An aviary at a wildlife sanctuary in financial strife has had its doors stripped in a stoush over an unpaid bill for almost a quarter of a million dollars.
PΕ«kaha Mt Bruce National Wildlife Centre on the border of Tararua and Wairarapa districts has issued an urgent plea for financial help, without which it faced imminent closure.
At the heart of the plea was an invoice for an under-construction aviary for the endangered shore plover bird.
Board co-chair Mavis Mullins said the breeding sanctuary needed to find $600,000 by the end of the week to avoid shutting its doors, after it was unable to secure funding from major partners the Department of Conservation and RangitΔne TΕ« Mai RΔ.
Brent Reid, co-director of local M
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