{"id":11977,"date":"2021-01-19T09:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:23","slug":"namibia-amazing-albatrosses-scarecrows-cut-seabird-deaths-by-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/01\/19\/namibia-amazing-albatrosses-scarecrows-cut-seabird-deaths-by-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Amazing albatrosses &#8211; &#8216;scarecrows&#8217; cut seabird deaths by 98%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservationists and fishermen in Namibia have reduced the accidental deaths of seabirds including endangered albatrosses, from up to 30,000 per year more than a decade ago, to just 215 at the last count: and it&#8217;s all down to the simplest of bird scarers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Namibia&#8217;s fishing fleet searching for hake and horse mackerel along its 1,500 kilometre-long coastline was until recently considered among the most deadly in the world for seabirds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, when fishing boats put out their nets and and baited hooks, draw them in, or discard fishing waste &#8212; they are a magnet for seabirds, many of which collide with the wrap cables drawn behind trawlers or get caught on the hooks of longline fishing boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in 2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a>\u00a0adopted new regulations that require all hake fishing vessels to use bird-scaring lines, a sort of nautical scarecrow, and other measures to protect birds from fatal encounters with fishing gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 98.4 percent reduction in seabird mortality between 2009-2018 is an &#8220;absolutely amazing&#8221; achievement, said Titus Shaanika, a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/our-work\/our-positions-and-casework\/our-positions\/marine-and-coastal\/saving-seabirds-globally\/the-albatross-task-force\/\">Albatross Task Force<\/a>\u00a0(ATF) based in Walvis Bay. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202101170041.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists and fishermen in Namibia have reduced the accidental deaths of seabirds including endangered albatrosses, from up to 30,000 per year more than a decade ago, to just 215 at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}