Article 6439N ‘It’s a murder scene’: feral pigs torment residents in New Zealand capital

‘It’s a murder scene’: feral pigs torment residents in New Zealand capital

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Eva Corlett in Wellington
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6439N)

Farm just minutes from centre of Wellington estimates it has lost about 60 kid goats in past few months

Marauding feral pigs have blighted a central suburb in New Zealand's capital, killing kid goats at an urban farm, intimidating dogs and turning up in residents' gardens.

The owners of a goat milk farm in the hills of the suburb of Brooklyn, 10 minutes from the centre of Wellington, has lost about 60 kid goats to pigs in the past few months. Often, all that is left of them are gnawed bone fragments and parts of the hooves or head.

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