UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
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Threats / Problems / Issues

It has been discovered recently that breeding frigatebirds on Great Tobago Island are dying, with entanglement in monofilament fishing line being one possible cause of this.

Dead frigatebird entangled in monofilament fishing line, Great Tobago.


© Jost Van Dykes Preservation Society
(Threats / Problems / Issues, 8 of 9 - Slide ref. 539)