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In a world of vanishing species and conservation buzzwords worn thin, one island has quietly delivered a rare bit of good news.
Conservationists counted a record-breaking 43,626 puffins on Skomer Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire - a remote Welsh outpost that’s defying global collapse to offer something close to a sanctuary.
No invasive predators. Plenty of fish. A habitat that still works.
While puffin numbers are plunging elsewhere, driven by climate change and overfishing, Skomer is bucking the trend - not through miracle, but through management.
It’s a story of what happens when we actually protect what matters.
But make no mistake: this isn’t a happy ending. Puffins remain listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.
The planet they rely on is still in crisis.
As Leighton Newman of the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales put it: “Although Skomer is a conservation success story, they are a species under threat. We must do all we can to protect them.”
In other words: celebrate the puffins. Then get back to work.
