Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recoverAs David Klee nosed his boat out into the channels of Whangamarino, he saw the birds were dying. Hundreds were already dead, floating, the sheen of their feathers dulling in the scum near the banks of the river. Others, he could tell, would be dead soon: flocks that should have been sent flapping in alarm by the boat’s passage sat placid, unmoving in the water.Often, the bird’s legs go first, says Klee, the local game bird manager for Fish & Game New… Source – Full Article ‘Like you’re in a horror movie’: pollution leaves New Zealand wetlands irreversibly damaged