Plans have been submitted for a one kilometre long barrier near Plémont in Jersey that would offer better protection for puffins and other endangered birds.

It would work by preventing attacks from ferrets and other non-native predators.

The initial proposal was for the barrier to be three kilometres long, but the length was reduced after people’s concerns were taken into account.

The island’s puffin numbers have plummeted - there were a few hundred just a century ago but now there are just six remaining.