We just got an urgent message from Sarah Franklyn over in Kilcoole…
The foxes are wiping out the Little Terns population there, with at least 50 new chicks taken and 40 nests gone.
Here’s Sarah…
We need all night campers on Kilcoole beach to stop the foxes eating every one of the Little Tern chicks and nests. It’s awful…thank you so much…. ALERT ALERT! Night watch help required immediately!
Apparently, the foxes are out on Kilcoole Beach and have wreaked havoc on Ternville – at least 50 of the new chicks taken and 40 nests gone! Night patrol is needed ASAP before the entire flock gets decimated. We need continuous night watch guards from now until July.
Fancy camping out at Kilcoole for a few days? We need to send a message to the foxes that Ternville is not their kitchen larder. We need tents at both ends of the nesting grounds on the beach. If you can help or know anyone who can, please contact Paddy on 0879002426 IMMEDIATELY. At the rate these foxes are going, there will be no tern chicks left by the end of the week.
Please help support this amazing project and if you can’t, pass the word around so that we can get people out there from tonight.