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Shore Birds

As I cut through the jungle foliage, a large leaf of an oil palm swept over my pith helmet. Ahead was a clearing, a beach occupied by hundreds if not thousands of shore birds lounging on sandbars of the shallow water.

Not really, though the part about the shore birds is true. This is a photo taken at Gulfport, Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico.

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Using the beach-dune systems as a highway

Many beaches and dunes are allowed to be abused as roads in Australia. This is hostile to wildlife, shorebirds and pedestrians

"Associate professor Craig Styan has been looking at how the beach is used and has surveyed a number of beachgoers. He said while there was no level of driving on the beach that had zero environmental impact, it posed a difficult management question."

"It's almost a paradox … the reason for going is because it's a natural environment, but you being there potentially impacts on some of those natural values."
#beach #coast #ecosystems #beaches #cars #ORVs #SandCompaction #DuneDestruction #dogs #harm #pedestrians #biodiversity #birds #shorebirds #displacement #EcologicalDamage #climate #regulation #NSW #conservation #BeachShorelineZones #erosion