FATAL PUBLICITY
RARE BIRDS AND PLANTS Captain Sanderson, president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, in a plea for the preservation of rare birds and plants, remarks that publicity proved fatal to the hopes of royal albatrosses which tried to nest on a lonely spot of the coast near Dunedin. The finders of the nest decided to keep their knowledge to themselves, but unfortunately thev took a friend into their confidence— ond soon their discovery found its way into print. It was good news for vandals 1 who went to some trouble to destroy the nest by pelting pieces of rock. That kind of vandal is not the only enemy of rare birds. Certain unscrupu- I lous collectors are ever alert for clues | which wilt help them to obtain illegal j possession of rare specimens and the : announcement of the presence of a NN plant or bird la invariably followed by a hunt for the rarity. Therefore New Zealander* who happen to see .such birds or their nests are exhorted to refrain from disclosing the
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20463, 1 April 1938, Page 9
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176FATAL PUBLICITY Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20463, 1 April 1938, Page 9
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