I believe the phrase is ‘putting your money where your mouth is’ I spend a lot of my time raising funds for the ATF and one of the most rewarding parts of my role is meeting many of the people who, not only care passionately about albatrosses but take personal actions to make a difference. I refer to the people who provide the bulk of the £500,000 a year that the Global Seabird programme needs to carry out its vital work. However, they would have achieved little without a large number of unsung heroes. Much of this is down to the instructors tenacity, persistence, hard work and courage.
Seven years on, we now have 17 instructors working in 8 countries and they have achieved considerable success.
We said that we wanted 6 instructors working with fishermen showing them how to use tori lines and other methods that would prevent seabirds becoming casualties. When the Albatross Task Force (ATF) was launched, at a dinner in the city of London in 2005, there was a feeling of hope in the air that we might be able to do something practical to slow down the rate that albatrosses were being killed in the fisheries of the Southern hemisphere.
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