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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Let’s hope it’s not a skein of geese hitting a passenger aircraft. Mary Williams reports on the increasing risk of...

Wallaby control is ramping up in the Mackenzie District with a cyanide poison control operation getting underway as a strategy to eliminate the pest is being developed.

It’s a warning that appeared to be heard by Government, with a Budget 2020 pledge for $27.4 million in funding over the next four years for national eradication efforts. According to Ron Keyzer​, the Central North Island wallaby programme leader, without action “we could lose more of our forest taonga”. He said the animals have a “huge appetite” for seedlings and shrubs, which prevents the regeneration of native bush. He said they will also eat grass, depriving livestock of food...

0 vladimir putin is running this peace process, running this crisis from syria and to go to "the new york times" and write this editorial shows it is in your face america, in your face barack obama. take this as an affront as he gives us a lesson as being a part of the world community. what do we do with our ban to speak out against us? the dixie chicks. i dont think president bush jailed them. who does president bush look up to or who does president obama look up to? abraham lincoln. who does h...