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A little blue penguin washed up on Mount Maunganui Main Beach. Photo / George Novak
Marine advocates are calling a large number of little blue penguins washing up along the Bay of Plenty coastline the “biggest penguin die-off in many years”.
The Department of Conservation (DoC) Tauranga office had answered an average of five calls each week since February, and Western Bay Wildlife Trust’s Julia Graham said the trust had 58 calls about dead penguins in two weeks.
“All of the penguins were dead, or died within a short time of arriving on land,” Graham said.
Hundreds of shearwaters, petrels, prions, shags and penguins, including dead poisonous pufferfish, were reported to have washed up along the coastline in January this year.
Courtesy of nzherald.co.nz
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