SORROWS OF WATERFOWL
HARD TASK TO SURVIVE. “Thoughtless members of the public”—they are numerous—are blamed for the decrease of native ducks and Australian black swans on lakes of the Rotorua wonderland, slates the Forest and Bird Protection Society. Nesting grounds have been spoilt and nests have been robbed. Files of the Forest and Bird Protection Society show that those •thoughtless members” do similar harm in other districts. “What a struggle the birds have to survive!’’ says a member. “On one side the ducks see some of their favourite natural haunts, such as swamps and lagoons, drained away by man’s insistence on the gospel that the human species is the only one with a real right to live on the broad bosom of Mother Earth. On the other side, the ducks see a continuous improvement in facilities for death-dealers —farreaching highways, speedy motor-cars, highly efficient fire-arms and ammunition. It is a one-sided war.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1939, Page 3
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152SORROWS OF WATERFOWL Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1939, Page 3
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