Travis Swamp
Sir,—When I arrived in Christchurch from Auckland aboard the Rangitira ferry in 1974, it was both interesting and pleasing to see the swamp area at the Christchurch end of the tunnel road, complete with its wading birds, which greeted me to this fair city. Over recent years I have watched in horror the destruction of the swamp area and the ruination of the habitat of those wading birds. Are we now going to do the same to the Travis Swamp? It seems that we, the human race, derive some sort of warped satisfaction from depriving the wetland birds of their natural habitat and offering them our own substitute wetlands (i.e. sewage ponds, works, etc.). — Yours, etc., P. J. BARRETT. January 22, 1989.
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Press, 25 January 1989, Page 16
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