Updated yesterday
at 10:23pm
Spreading
awareness of Tasmania's vulnerable species of sea bird, the shy albatross, is
the key to keeping the species alive, a prominent scientist says.
From
climate change, plastic ingestion, habitat loss or feral animals it is not
difficult to understand why the shy albatross is somewhat withdrawn.
The
native Tasmanian sea bird is currently listed as vulnerable under the
Threatened Species Protection Act which why a prominent scientist wants
Tasmanians to get to know the shy albatross better.
Species
need to have their champions.
Wildlife
officer with the Tasmanian parks department, Rachael Alderman, has been
studying the giant birds since 2003 and said the data she had collected was not
encouraging.
"There's
been a general decline in breeding success, for every pair that lay an egg it's
getting increasingly less likely that they'll have a surviving chick at the end
of the year," she said.
"We're
also finding that if they are successful ... fewer and fewer chicks are
surviving that first period at sea and making it back."
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