Descendants of domestic stock released last century, the Kaimanawa horses were granted full protection in 1981 under the Wildlife Act – a strange protection for introduced animals. Over the next 13 years they multiplied nine-fold on the tussocklands in the Army reserve east of the Desert Road and their heavy grazing and trampling has severely damaged rare and important tussockland plant communities.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 24
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61Descendants of domestic stock released last century, the Kaimanawa horses were granted full protection in 1981 under the Wildlife Act – a strange protection for introduced animals. Over the next 13 years they multiplied nine-fold on the tussocklands in the Army reserve east of the Desert Road and their heavy grazing and trampling has severely damaged rare and important tussockland plant communities. Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 24
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