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Thread #72067 Message #1237895
Posted By: The Shambles
31-Jul-04 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Seabird crisis - spreads to England
Subject: BS: Seabird crisis - spreads to England
The Independant's front page story yesterday 30 July 2004. reported the complete failure of the seabirds of Orkney and Shetland to breed this year. Today they report that English seabird colonies are also affected.
The scale of this failure is unprecendtent in Europe and is being linked by scientists directly to global warming and its effects in the North Sea on the bird's main food source - the sandeel. The temperature of the North Sea has risen by 2C in the last 20 years.