It’s a fair comment that people tend to give more attention to endangered animal populations when the animals in question are cute. But in the case of the ridiculously endearing puffins of Seal Island, their sharp decline over the last two breeding seasons is an indicator of significant environmental and population shifts that are having an impact on all marine life in the Gulf of Maine.
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