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Tango0107 Feb 2019 9:25 p.m. PST

… overfishing and climate change cut off food source.

"A population crash in a massive seabird colony on Ascension Island has been attributed to a poor diet after their normal food sources dried up.

Numbers of sooty terns living in the UK overseas territory have plummeted by over 80 per cent in recent decades, from several million to just a few hundred thousand.

New research suggests the bird's downfall is the result of poor quality food, after industrial fishing and climate change combined to rob them of their usual diet…."
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Andrew Walters09 Feb 2019 12:49 p.m. PST

We need to figure out fisheries.

Tango0111 Feb 2019 10:07 p.m. PST

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