The tracks were reopened and nothing happened until mid-year when "they came back with a vengeance because they started targeting stock".īlake-Persen explains why DOC and the local authorities have been hampered in their efforts to control them as they roamed through the forests and farms and beaches.
The tracks were closed and DOC put up cameras but no dogs were seen. You don't expect to see wild dogs in New Zealand."Īnd because of that, she says, there are no specific laws to deal with them. "It boggles my mind that this is still able to happen in a country where we're striving for Predator Free Aotearoa, to have packs of feral dogs which are not only a threat obviously to wildlife but also to stock and potentially humans," she says.īlake-Persen tells how campers and trampers at Cape Reinga earlier in the year spotted the packs of wild dogs loitering around. Today on The Detail RNZ Northland reporter Nita Blake-Persen talks to Sharon Brettkelly about the war on feral dogs in the Far North.
She's been captured and a GPS monitor has been fitted to her in the hope that she can be tracked with the pack. The latest strategy is a feral dog named Judy.
With new fears the dogs will target lambs, farmers have stepped up efforts, supported by the local council and the Department of Conservation. "That's pretty harrowing for a young person to deal with," Nilsson told RNZ rural news. Anne Marie Nilsson, who has a farm just south of Cape Reinga, has lost dozens of ewes and lambs and her 15-year-old daughter has lost 36 of her angora goats.
It is estimated 100 wild dogs are prowling the area but the desperate efforts for months to get rid of them have failed, and the packs are growing.įarmers say they are struggling with the cost of the attacks, financially and mentally. There was even talk of hunting by helicopter and bringing in soldiers.
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