AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-2011
QLD:New team set up to help cassowaries
BRISBANE, Feb 8 AAP - A specialist team has been formed in a bid to stop endangered
cassowaries starving to death after Cyclone Yasi.
Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Kate Jones said the team was conducting
aerial surveys of vital habitat around Mission Beach.
Consideration would then be given to aerial food drops in targeted locations to supplement
food sources for the birds.
Feeding stations were also being investigated, she said.
After Cyclone Larry hit the same area in 2006, some cassowaries starved to death after
food …
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