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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 and “reducing stock rates and browse exotic forest seedlings, causing economic loses for the fore...