The best place to glimpse a puffin in the wild
SIR – Fears that British puffins may go the way of the dodo (report, May 24) can be offset by some good news.
The spring count of 31,000 puffins on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, is the highest in more than 70 years, part of a continual upward trend in their numbers since 2004.
Quite why the increase in numbers at this extraordinary nature reserve should be at odds with wider trends is unknown. Suffice to say that Skomer, managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, is the best place to see puffins in southern Britain.
David Saunders
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire