Call to ban vehicles on Northland Beach

Locals looking after a wildlife refuge on a Northland beach are frustrated with vehicles and dogs coming into the breeding grounds of endangered seabirds. 

The refuge, on the Waipu River Mouth south of Whangarei, is the home of dotterels and oyster catchers. 

But local man David Lourie of the Bream Bay Coastal Care Trust says vehicles on the beach and pet dogs, are causing havoc.