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Thread #140827   Message #3238743
Posted By: Gurney
14-Oct-11 - 03:37 AM
Thread Name: NZ needs a break-Rena shipwreck-NZ Oil pollution
Subject: RE: BS: NZ could use a break....
Sad film of conservators trying to catch the endangered NZ Dotterel before the oil hits their reserve. They can't do anything about their eggs, (Sping, here) and seem to be having to abandon them, and waste a generation instead of a population. Not the resources available to raise the chicks in captivity, they are hoping to capture about 40 of the small shore bird and keep them alive until they can be released into a clean environment again.
Less than 2000 Dotterel total. At the moment.

Counted dead seabirds 1000. That great fishing/diving reef, no-one is even making a guess if it will ever recover. The containers are being ripped off the ship and opened by the battering. The ship has a twist now.