The wildfowl egg-grounds of West New Britain

Abstract

Wildlife ecologists have become concerned that the wildfowl egg-grounds in the Nakanai area (Cape Hoskins) of New Britain are in danger of disappearing. Large tracts of timber rights have been sold and as lowland rainforest is the birds’ natural habitat, the wildfowl may well disappear and with them an important social and economic resource of the Nakanai people.