Botulism — Worldwide/Unknown
Tauranga City’s duck population is diminishing as high temperatures and warm waterways aid in the spread of a toxic botulism, currently killing about 5 ducks a week. For the last 3 months [January-March 2014], Tauranga City Council, the Department of Conservation and Fish and Game New Zealand have been retrieving dead or sick ducks from Papamoa’s Royal Palm Beach Reserve as concentrated levels of the toxin remain in low water levels.
Tauranga City Council drainage engineer Peter Moro says
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