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Two dogs have been seized in the Bay of Islands as authorities investigate the deaths of around 20 highly protected kiwi - including four around Boxing Day alone.
All the maulings occurred in one bay on Purerua Peninsula, north of Kerikeri.
DOC Bay of Islands ranger Adrian Walker confirmed "a significant number" of kiwi had been killed on the peninsula, in the past four months in particular.
He said two dogs had been seize
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