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Kiwi carnage is happening in the Bay of Islands with nine of the strictly protected birds killed at one isolated bay during the past six weeks.
RNZ understands the first dead kiwi was found on 29 January at Wharengaere Bay, off Hansen Road on the Purerua Peninsula.
Four more were discovered in the following weeks, with the death rate rising sharply this month.
Two kiwi corpses were found on 6 March, another on 7 March, and one more on
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