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Escaping Takahe to be exiled from Tawharanui peninsula

13:36 pm on 22 October 2019

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Auckland council's head ranger, Matt Maitland, explains why they have been forced to relocate two Takahe who keeping on breaking out the predator free reserve on Tawharanui peninsula. He also talks about the latest escape which lasted for ten days and left Matt with a broken wrist.

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