WELLINGTON, Aug 21, 2015 (AFP) - A bird cull on a New Zealand island has been abruptly halted after marksmen killed four rare takahe, an endangered species with only 300 known to exist, officials said Friday.
The deaths were “deeply disappointing”, Conservation Department director Andrew Baucke said in a statement.
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