These ponds, to the north of the Wairau Estuary, Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, once hosted flocks of migrant birds, but now lie black, brackish and baking in the summer heat after engineers trapped the roving Wairau River. Denied essential freshwater flushes, their vitality and wildlife has deserted. Proposals to divert flows back into them have so far come to nothing.
DAVE HANSFORD, ORIGIN NATURAL HISTORY MEDIA
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Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 30
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67These ponds, to the north of the Wairau Estuary, Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, once hosted flocks of migrant birds, but now lie black, brackish and baking in the summer heat after engineers trapped the roving Wairau River. Denied essential freshwater flushes, their vitality and wildlife has deserted. Proposals to divert flows back into them have so far come to nothing. DAVE HANSFORD, ORIGIN NATURAL HISTORY MEDIA Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 30
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