A popular beach on Sydney Airport’s doorstep has been quietly closed to swimming and fishing due to fears it is contaminated with cancer-causing “forever chemicals”.
It is the second thresher to be found dead on a southwestern beach in recent weeks. Another thresher rescued from an abandoned fishing net in Clovelly, Devon, was found dead there just days later.
RSPCA Animal Rescue Officer Ellie West was called to attend to the two male mallards on 28 September as they had become entangled in line on the river in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. Due to the tide, ...