A new study has found that the decline of the Galapagos Waved Albatross (featured on the front of the 2007 Naturetrek brochure) population is linked to fishing. Approximately 1% of the entire world population is killed each year as a result of being harvested for human consumption or unintentionally caught whilst fishing.
Jill Awkerman, a graduate student from Wake Forest University said “If that happens every year, that is not sustainable,” and "In a matter of decades, you could be talking about extinction."
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