Madagascar pochard, world's rarest bird, needs new home
BBC News Africa
25 August 2014
Madagascar pochard, world's rarest bird, needs new home
The world's rarest bird is on brink of extinction, as Victoria Gill reports
by Victoria Gill, Science reporter, BBC News
The Madagascar pochard, the world's rarest bird, will not be able to thrive without a new wetland home.
This is according to a study revealing that 96% of the chicks are dying at two to three weeks old.
Conservationists say that human activity has driven the birds to one remaining wetland, but that that site has insufficient food for the ducks...
...Human activity, including deforestation, farming and fishing, has destroyed their habitat to the point that this last population is now restricted to one wetland in north-east Madagascar - a complex of lakes near Bemanevika....
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