In 1965, a couple began counting pigeons in Queensland. Three years later, numbers fell from 4,692 to 1,451, beginning a 60-year conservation story
- A couple, Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne, travelled north from Queensland’s Gold Coast to Hinchinbrook Island, a place they knew largely through photographs.
- They would return many times, eventually making the Cardwell area their home and becoming closely associated with its forests, wetlands and wildlife.
- Among the animals that caught their attention were pied imperial-pigeons, which gathered on North Brook Island to breed but faced a very different future from the one their numbers might suggest today.
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- A couple, Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne, travelled north from Queensland’s Gold Coast to Hinchinbrook Island, a place they knew largely through photographs.
- They would return many times, eventually making the Cardwell area their home and becoming closely associated with its forests, wetlands and wildlife.
- Among the animals that caught their attention were pied imperial-pigeons, which gathered on North Brook Island to breed but faced a very different future from the one their numbers might suggest today.
Sources: Times of India