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WHAT’S KILLING THE SEA-LIONS?
New Zealand sea-lion numbers have plummeted. Is it fishing pressure, climate change, the mysterious disappearance of octopuses, or a deadly new virus?
The sea-lion colony at Enderby Island is one of the last outposts of a population once found all around mainland New Zealand. They were extensively hunted by early Maori and may have been extirpated from much of the mainland by 1450AD, following the same path towards extinction as the country’s avian megafauna, including the moa.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue138 March – April 2016.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2016
New Zealand sea-lion numbers have plummeted. Is it fishing pressure, climate change, the mysterious disappearance of octopuses, or a deadly new virus?
The sea-lion colony at Enderby Island is one of the last outposts of a population once found all around mainland New Zealand. They were extensively hunted by early Maori and may have been extirpated from much of the mainland by 1450AD, following the same path towards extinction as the country’s avian megafauna, including the moa.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue138 March – April 2016.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2016
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