• Iceland’s distant Westland island is house to the world’s largest puffin colony.
• Yearly, puffin chicks get disoriented by gentle air pollution and crash inland as a substitute of flying out to sea.
• The native folks clear the streets to keep away from indecisiveness. As soon as they discover them, they doc them and throw them off cliffs.

Yearly throughout late summer season, locals on a distant island off the coast of Iceland spend their evenings trying to find stray puffin chicks – often called pufflings – and tossing them off the sting of a cliff .

Gentle air pollution can disorient the gulls, inflicting them to fly inland as a substitute of out to sea.

Puffins are a nationwide treasure in Iceland, which has the most important colony on the earth, however their numbers have been declining for many years.