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Gannets Under Attack 1-2-3
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A small island in Saldanha Bay, South Africa. A few rocks, tons of guano. Guano that was stolen tenth of years ago for manuring. The beautiful precious gannets suffered. They missed their building material for nests, housing and the females didn't know where to lay that one and only egg. They fought for keeping their guano but mankind didn't allow them to live. The population of 70 to 100.000 birds - one of the most important breeding grounds in the world - suffered. |
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OK, they were brought guano of nearby Penguin Island as a substitute, but so what?! Now the penguin became furious about they're stolen building materials! And the gannets that tried to survive looked despised to the penguin-shit. Man oh man & Paradise again troubled by the stupidities of selfish mankind.
The beautiful blue-eyed Cape gannets survived. In 1980 mankind realised that the gannet was on the edge of being distinguished. The guano trade stopped and the gannets were allowed to build their own houses including child-room from their own guano. Nice, isn’t it? The population numbered healthy 70.000 birds. A community of fighting, bitchy and flirting gannets taking a guano-bath from time to time and - once married - loyal to the one they love. On a few acres of rocks the gannets fly on and off to the rich fishing grounds where they swallow sardines by tons.
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