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Tree damage

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Tree damage

This pine tree has been damaged by goats, which have chewed off the bark completely. The tree will then die. Goats also strip small tree seedlings of their growing points.

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Allan Gillingham, Goats and goat farming – Goats in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16587/tree-damage (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.