How lovers of the hooded plover are helping the species recover

Self-described ‘Plover People’ can be often be spotted by their distinctive habit of lugging stakes, string and signs around on Australian beaches

The story of the hooded plover is actually a story about people, Port Fairy author Jock Serong says.

There are the people who are aware of the plovers and keep away and the people who don’t care and let their dogs run wild on the beaches, then there are the Plover People, as Jock describes them. The Plover People are a passionate band of conservationists trying to not just protect the hooded plovers from people – but the plovers from themselves.

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