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Message: <blockquote data-quote="martin kitching" data-source="post: 1865469" data-attributes="member: 3216">There are 9 wardens employed by the National Trust on the Farne Islands.  Without them, there would be no habitat management, monitoring etc.  Without the visitors there would be no money to pay the wardens.  If you remove the visitors, and hence the wardens, would the degradation of the habitat be a worse fate than the disturbance that the birds currently suffer?  Some level of mitigation is in place, in that landing is only permitted on Inner Farne in the afternoon (and Staple Island in the morning).cheersmartin</blockquote>