Litterbugs have forced the National Parks and Wildlife Service to ramp up its patrols at a camping area near Batemans Bay on the New South Wales far south coast.
The ABC reports that a group of campers recently left everything from soiled nappies and broken bottles at the Clyde River National Park. The Service’s David Cunningham that rangers will now step up their regular campsite checks. And, he warns that while it is currently free to stay in the park, that could change if people do not act responsibly.
He told the ABC it was going to be hard to find the culprits. “We don’t know who has done it,” Mr Cunningham said. “Sometimes more commercial kinds of rubbish gets dumped in the park and they’ll often leave things like cash register dockets or bits of information and we can track them down.”
He says that when people are caught they are fined and given an order to clean up, but it is more difficult with general camp ground waste.
