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Eric Woehler, convenor of Birdlife Tasmania, has just returned from a month aboard the RV Falkor mapping the seafloor.
He told Piia Wirsu what unfolded and what can be learnt.
Duration: 7min 46sec
Iceland’s seabirds are in rapid decline and a leading zoologist claims there is no end to the crisis in sight.
The numbers of seabirds around Iceland during summer time has been declining and in the last 10-15 years the number of Brünnich’s guillemot has declined by 44 percent and there are 30 percent fewer guillemots and fulmars.
Professor Arnthor Gardarsson is among the scientists who have been researching the reason for the seabirds’ demise around Iceland. He says the reasons are varied.
According to Gardarsson, the main reason appears to be changes in ocean currents around the country which have led to a crash in the number of sand eels, upon which baby seabirds rely. There are also probably many other, less obvious, reasons, he added.
making sure that they re all ready for release so we each one has his own thing cause this is made of this what he had he was 70 percent oil and he was emaciated he was really underweight the conservationists take in sea birds in peril and try to prepare them to be released back into the wilds thousands of injured animals come here every year some will stay here forever as they would not so wife in their nature will have the tents. but these birds might not be here in the long term. they are in danger of extinction it s quite possible that anyone can go extinct in the future and we ve had a dramatic declines in training with numbers even between the concert last year and this year the numbers of dropped by about 2000 breeding pairs so we have less than $20000.00 breeding pairs that s scary though. at least penguins 1st have to spend
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