Beach cleaners are being urged to tread carefully.
In tidying up the Island's coastline, they might be responsible for damaging the local wildlife.
The warning comes as volunteers carry out a major clean on a northern beach this weekend.
Beach Buddies are at Smeale beach today (Sun).
However, seabirds at Smeale are nesting and beachbuddies founder Bill Dale says volunteers need to be wary:
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