‘Dead things everywhere’: is Australia facing the summer from hell?
- Sep 9, 2019
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Out in the Macquarie Marshes, about 1ookm north of Warren in the central west of New South Wales, large inland wetlands have become a place for the dead and dying.
“We went out last night and there was a little patch of water with dead and dying European carp,” Richard Kingsford, the director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of NSW, says. “There’s dead and dying things everywhere. Kangaroos dying and even foxes are dying.
“We were trying to trap for turtles but there doesn’t seem to be enough water for turtles. I’m not sure where they’ve gone to.”
There are large parts of the Macquarie River that have dried up completely as the state remains in the grip of one of the most severe droughts on record.
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