TOURIST RESORT
WHAT ABOUT THE BIRDS' RIGHTS? It is complained by members of the Forest and Bird Protection Society that the gannet sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers is becoming more and more a tourist resort rather than a place where the birds have a right to peace for nesting and rearing the new generation. A newspaper report mentions that "a special appeal is made to visitors not to disturb the birds unduly and arrangements have been made for several honorary rangers to be on duty as .an added protection for the Kidnapper colony.'' The truth is that the bold headland has ceased to be a sanctuary from the gannets' point of view. Some critics of the popular practice of legalised trespassing on the nesting ground believe that the instinct of self-preservation may induce the birds to seek another place, where profanation by human sightseers would hot be so easy. If they did decide on such a course they Avould be only following the example of '-ooks and crows which will' desert a -ookery when it attracts too much Mention from mankind.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 88, 15 November 1939, Page 7
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180TOURIST RESORT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 88, 15 November 1939, Page 7
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