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This life sized model of a Royal Albertross ,was kindly loaned to me for a week by Alan Bailey from the Mansfield RSPB group.Thanks Alan ,Im sure you will agree ,Alans creation is something special.I made as many members of the public aware through out the week of the ongoing RSPB campaign working in partnership with Birdlife International to Save the Albertross.Some of the stuff I was telling people included that 100,000 Albertross s around the globe are killed needlessly annually.At least they were .What are the RSPB doing about it ? I would ask before mentioning that for example in Argentina this time last year aproximately 1500 Albratross s drowned in longline fishing nets ,due to a simple measure like working with the local fishermen to redesign the fishing hook that is getting caught in their beaks and drowning them ,before adding that the deaths have been reduced in South Africa by 84% .Of the 23 species of Albie around the world ,21 are threatened with extinction -they would almost definately become extinct were it not for the RSPB/Birdlife International intiative.are you collecting stamps for the Save the Albatross appeal? Hassle everyone you know to do this please,pass them onto your local RSPB group.I thank you.