Trespassers risk their lives, disturb wildlife by jumping off railroad bridge
Officials from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, which oversees the Batiquitos Lagoon nature reserve bordering Carlsbad and Encinitas, says they are seeing an increase in trespassers engaging in dangerous behavior and disturbing wildlife, including an endangered bird species.
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CARLSBAD, Calif. (KGTV) â Officials from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, which oversees the Batiquitos Lagoon nature reserve bordering Carlsbad and Encinitas, says they are seeing an increase in trespassers engaging in dangerous behavior and disturbing wildlife, including an endangered bird species.
âI was out there last week two times, two days last week and I saw at least 20-30 minors jumping into the lagoon, said Gabriel Penaflor, an environmental scientist for DFW.
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$5,000 reward offered for information on drone crash in Bolsa Chica bird reserve Leila Miller © Provided by The LA Times Thousands of eggs were abandoned on a nesting island at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach after a drone, prohibited in the area, crashed and scared off the would-be parents. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)
The Animal Legal Defense Fund announced Thursday a reward of $5,000 for information on the person or people who operated a drone that crashed-landed in May into nesting grounds at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach.
About 3,000 elegant terns notable for their orange bills and black crests fled the reserve after the crash in mid-May. They left behind 1,500 to 2,000 unsavable eggs, the largest abandonment that scientists who work there could remember.