Puffin amongst pink Sea Thrift

One, unfortunately Puffins (alongside many seabird species) are in decline. While there are a number of reasons for this, the general consensus is climate change being the main reason, disrupting food chains in the North Sea and North Atlantic, which has in turn decimated numbers of their main food source; Sand Eels. For example, in 2000 there were more than 33,000 Puffins on Shetland. In 2017, this number had dropped to 570. It’s a stark realisation of what we as humans are doing to the planet.