British holidaymakers travelling to certain parts of France this summer have been warned to purchase a sticker for their car, or risk a fine.
21.07.2023 - 08:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Holidaymakers visiting Wales this summer have been warned not to touch dead birds on the beach as concerns rise over a bird flu outbreak. In recent weeks reports of bird carcasses washing up on shores in west and north wales have increased as wild bird colonies around the UK continue to be affected.
People have been asked not to pick up dead or visibly sick birds, keep dogs from coming into contact with them and to report sightings. Wales’s climate change minister Julie James described the situation as “heart-wrenching”.
The minister has visited islands off the Pembrokeshire coast alongside wildlife charity the RSPB to assess what could be done. Ramsey and Grassholm, where the minister sailed to on Thursday, are home to some of the world’s most important gannet colonies, with guillemots, Manx shearwater, razorbills and peregrine falcons also nesting on their shores.
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RSPB Cymru said birds suspected of having the illness are being spotted there daily. Last week the charity said that common and Arctic terns, gulls and the Atlantic puffin had been found dead floating in waters around the Skerries and Rhosneigr islands, off Anglesey in North Wales.
A Seabird Emergency Response Group has been set up by the Welsh Government and meets weekly. Avian influenza is described as highly pathogenic and can spread through sneezes, faeces, standing in still water, and birds of prey or opportunistic scavengers hunting contaminated carcasses.
As seabirds tend to live in dense colonies and raise just one chick a year, this enables the disease to rip through populations and move between colonies. It also makes it harder for the species to
British holidaymakers travelling to certain parts of France this summer have been warned to purchase a sticker for their car, or risk a fine.
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