CHARLIE MITCHELL
Last updated 08:12, October
11 2016
Cattle have been photographed on
the nesting ground of one of the world's most endangered species, the Black
Stilt/Kaki, which has as little as 70 adults left in the wild.
Cattle have been spotted grazing
and defecating near a breeding area for one of the world's most endangered
birds.
An environmental lobby group says
it is a terrible look for the Mackenzie ecological area.
A marauding cattle herd was
photographed last month walking freely along the Hopkins river bed, near
Mount Cook.
Cattle were seen grazing in the
Hopkins river, near a breeding site for the critically endangered black stilt.
They had unrestricted access to
the river bed, which breaks the rules of the property's pastoral lease.
Poo could be seen scattered
amongst the otherwise untarnished landscape beneath the Southern
Alps.
The area is home to the
kaki/black stilt, the world's rarest wading bird. There are between 70 and 90
adult kaki in the wild.
It is one step away from
extinction.
Kaki breed exclusively in
the braided rivers around the Mackenzie Basin.
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