§ 28. Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what figures are available of the species and number of birds that have died from marine pollution in the past 10 years.
§ Mr. HeseltinePrecise figures are not available. A recent report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has recorded the death of 35,000 sea birds as a result of significant oil pollution incidents in the last 10 years; about 25,000 of these were auks and approximately 2,300 sea duck. These figures reveal only a proportion of the true number of birds killed.
Data are not available for bird deaths caused by other kinds of pollution in our seas.