Seeing mollymawk carcasses containing plastic beads lying on the remote coastline of Stewart Island is motivation for Southern Coastal Charitable Trust volunteers to keep clearing rubbish from such areas. A recent trip to Stewart Island saw 16 volunteers collect an estimated 28 tonnes of rubbish from Mason Bay at Stewart Island. Ms Kolk said she saw about 50 dead mollymawks while out collecting rubbish. The trip to Stewart Island was the second such clean-up this year. The first was in Fiordland in July, in which 68 fadges of rubbish were collected by 20 volunteers.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 04, 2021 15:33 UTC