#OneMansDream 🪸 Once found abundant in Iceland 🇮🇸, this strikingly beautiful bird, puffin has radically declined from the beginning of this century. Since puffins heavily depend on the ocean for almost every aspect of their life, ocean health has a direct impact on their population.
🪸Today, with the forever increasing exploitation of our
#OneBlueOcean, climate change, overfishing and mass hunting of these birds by poachers for feathers and their breast meat the bird population has taken a toll. Still, climate change’s imprint is increasingly evident in the overall incident according to the NY Times.
🪶 NY Times: When the adults can’t catch enough to feed themselves and the chicks, they make an instinctive Malthusian choice; the chicks starve. Dr. Fayet called her quest “heartbreaking”: “You put your hand in the burrow and feel with your hand a little ball on the floor, but then you realize it’s cold, and not moving.” 💔
🐠 We need to put out a word before these beautiful fluf...