According to @JNCC_UK survey: "More than half the seabird species breeding on British & Irish coasts have declined over the last 20 years, some due to climate change reducing food availability & increasing storminess at nest sites" 🗞️@patrick_barkham theguardian.com/environment/…

More than half of UK and Ireland seabirds in decline, census finds

Species populations falling, with some decreasing due to loss of habitat and less food availability

theguardian.com

Nov 25, 2023 · 10:03 AM UTC

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Replying to @IPBES @JNCC_UK
.@patrick_barkham discards are a very important part of this change, nitter.vloup.ch/Alexander_Lees/s… populations historically buoyed up even as stocks depleted.
Alex Lees @Alexander_Lees
14 Nov 2023
Populations of half of the declining species (4 gulls + Fulmar) likely historically inflated by fisheries discards onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… and the Isles of Scilly also now getting closer to the thermal niche range edge of many species too...
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