Readers have shared their fears of increased use of 1080 bait to control dingoes and wild dogs as the amount of land farmed for sugar cane contracts and is cleared for other farmi ...
Packs of roaming feral dogs are known to be a problem in Te Tai Tokerau, attacking animals on farms and wildlife including kiwi. In one year dogs killed more than 35 kiwis in Ōpua Forest near Paihia.