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Deaths at the Cape: evidence ignored, says whistleblower - Newsroom

An investigation into 25 kiwi deaths favoured Cape Sanctuary in Hawkes Bay, a whistleblower claims

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In early 2017, Ian, a veteran conservation worker and experienced kiwi handler, used his downtime at the country’s largest private sanctuary to pick up signals from radio-tagged little spotted kiwi.

He’d been helping to manage takahē at Cape Sanctuary in Hawkes Bay, and some of their transmitters were on the same receiver frequency as the ‘little spots’.

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