GANNET SANCTUARY
BIRDS DISTURBED BY TOURISTS It is complained by members of the Forest and Bird Protection Society that the garnet sanctuary at Capo 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 birds undul.v 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 gaunets’ point of view. Some critics of the popular practice of legalised trespassing on the nesting ground believe that the instinct of self-preserva-tion may induce the birds to seek another place where profanation by human sightseers would not be so easy. If they did decide on such a course they would be only following the example of rooks and crows, which will desert a rookery when it attracts too (1 much attention from mankind.
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Evening Star, Issue 23422, 13 November 1939, Page 8
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179GANNET SANCTUARY Evening Star, Issue 23422, 13 November 1939, Page 8
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