'SWIFT ACTION NEEDED TO SAVE ENDANGERED BIRDS'

SENEDD members have debated a 10,000-name petition calling for “swift bricks” to be made mandatory in all new buildings to reverse the bird’s alarming decline.

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Carolyn Thomas, who chairs the petitions committee, warned swifts are now Wales’ fastest-declining bird as she led a debate in the Senedd.

She told the Senedd: “The decline is now at more than 76% since 1995, even worse than since the petition was submitted, and there has been a 56% decline in just the last 10 years.”