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May 24, 2006

Trust gets grant for dog training

The Taranaki Kiwi Trust has been granted $9444 to run more dog training and awareness courses.

It will use the money to run eight kiwi aversion courses, including a refresher course for dogs that went through the training last year.
The courses will be available for pig dogs, farm dogs and other canines taken into the bush.
Trust chairperson Jan Fogg said the avian aversion training was another way to raise awareness about the plight the North Island brown kiwi in Taranaki.

She said the trust had several kiwi conservation programmes under way and worked with landowners, the community and the Department of Conservation to ensure populations of the endangered bird survived.

"This new funding will provide a welcome boost to the trust's work. In some areas of the country, hunters are not able to get a permit to hunt without their dogs having gone through the training," she said. MORE>>

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