France, Cros de Cagnes. The fishermen's throwing the net in the water. ©AFP Photos


Shocking pink tubes help to save albatrosses
24/02/2009 2:15 pm

Gaudy strips of pink fluorescent tubing are helping to save albatrosses from extinction. They frighten the birds away from baited hooks on fishing lines, which attract, snag and drown some 100,000 albatrosses and petrels a year.The New Scientist