A simple conservation strategy deployed by conservationists and scientists is greatly assisting in the extraordinary success of threatened Roseate terns on Rockabill Island, off the coast of Dublin. Ireland is home to the majority of Europe's Roseate Terns with Rockabill incredibly hosting 85% of the European population on this tiny island, which is the size of a football pitch. The number of breeding pairs is now ten times what it was when the project started in 1989, and chicks that hatched and fledged on Rockabill have gone on to boost other important colonies in Wexford and England.
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