Cattle stops kill kiwi
Jacqui Barrington
CATTLE STOPS, long identified in England as a source of danger to wildlife, have now been implicated in the deaths of kiwi in Northland. An alert Forest and Bird member, holidaying north of Russell, came upon skeletons of three kiwi at the bottom of a deep cattle stop on the Purerua peninsula. In Britain the native hedgehog was falling victim in exactly the same way. Tumbling in and unable to climb out, the animals were condemned to a slow death by starvation until a hedgehog rescue group was formed to highlight their plight and its easy solution, the construction of escape ramps. Examination of two other nearby cattle stops at Purerua confirmed that when shallow, with naturally formed ramps of road metal, no kiwi prisoners had been taken. Landowners — please check your cattle stops to make sure they only serve the purpose for which they are intended, and alert any neighbours to the simple, no-cost solution to help safeguard our diminishing kiwi populations.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 268, 1 May 1993, Page 4
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