October 29, 2020
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A new Department of Conservation study shows there are 35,000 unexplained deaths, in the past eleven years, of the already critical antipodean albatross. Conservationists blame the deaths on the longlines used by fishing boats, which the birds get caught in, and say if things do not change, the birds will be extinct within the next 20 years. Sea bird expert, Dr Stephanie Borrelle, says at the same time as their numbers plummet, the number of observers on New Zealand longline boats, has continued to fall.
