Our investigation began after a grim discovery in bushland on the Northern Beaches: an endangered Little Penguin flipper, cleanly severed, found on a walking track. But worse - the flipper had been fashioned into jewellery. A Northern Beaches local, who wishes to remain anonymous, stumbled upon the flipper on a Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park walking track near Pittwater, and was horrified to see a "drill hole in the shoulder and a piece of string through it as if it’s been made into a lucky charm bracelet." Readers please note: images of the flipper jewellery will soon appear in this article.  The flipper was handed into the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NSW). Rumour had it a penguin had been brought into Taronga Zoo recently, she told...