Fly-tipping could bring rodents to bird sanctuary island Burhou

Burhou is an important breeding site for bird including puffins

Environmentalists are concerned that fly-tipping could encourage rodents to return to an island known as an important bird sanctuary.

Burhou, off Alderney, has no permanent residents and few visitors can stay.

Roland Gauvain, CEO of Alderney Wildlife Trust, said it was "frankly disappointing" that "six or seven bags of domestic waste" were recently found on the island.

Burhou is a key site for wildlife, and in the summer is a home for puffins.

Mr Gauvain said: "The big problem was this was probably three or four months after it was left there so very soon those bags were going to degrade so much that that rubbish would be all over the island.

"We have real serious issues with things like the possibility of reintroducing rodents onto the island - we have got to be very careful about biodiversity on islands like Burhou."

He asked that people think about what they are "doing for the next generation" by damaging the environment.

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