West Wales island home to tens of thousands of puffins and shearwaters is a star of the veteran broadcaster’s new BBC series Wild Isles
and the Attenborough effect is expected to swell the number of people who this spring and summer venture across from the south-west Wales mainland and clamber up the 87 steps from the jetty.
His number one message to visitors is to stick to the paths, as the island is honeycombed by the burrows of puffins, Manx shearwaters – another charismatic seabird – and rabbits. “The burrows are fragile,” he warned. “It’s easy to fall through them and land on top of a bird.
In a poignant scene, he will be seen urging the bird: “Come along … come along …come along … Are you about to take off? Good luck! What an astonishment.” He goes on to make the point that protecting precious environments like Skomer should be a high priority.
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