§ Dr. Marekasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will estimate the number of wirebirds left on St. Helena; and whether their number is declining.
§ Mr. RentonIt is estimated that between 100 and 300 pairs of wirebirds at present inhabit St. Helena. Numbers have fallen off since the 1960s, for no particular identifiable reason, but it is not thought that the wirebird is threatened with extinction.