I think there's a feeling by some people that Sable Island should be a kind of Garden of Eden, without any human intervention in it, even though I had a birder in Southwest Nova tell me that he's very concerned. For example, the grey seals have taken over some of the islands where you find puffins and other fairly rare birds, and of course puffins don't stand a chance against them. So what we're really seeing is the transformation of Sable Island to grey seals. There used to be a harbour seal colony out there—these are smaller, the common seal—and I understand they've pretty well been driven off the island.
What has happened in other parts of the world when the population gets to the saturation point is that disease breaks out. So the people who think they're doing something really great for Sable Island may not be.