At least no-one who's marooned there will starve. Rabbit pie, anyone?
cheers
Dave G0OIL
--- On Tue, 13/1/09, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
From: Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu
Subject: [DX-NEWS] Removing cats to protect birds backfires on Macquarie Island
To: dx-news@njdxa.org
Date: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009, 6:10 PM
By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Michael Casey, Ap
Environmental Writer – Tue Jan 13, 9:18 am ET
BANGKOK, Thailand – It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all
the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native
seabirds.
But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island
allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of
its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers
said Tuesday.
Removing the cats from Macquarie caused environmental devastation
that will cost authorities 24 million Australian dollars ($16.2
million) to remedy, Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic
Division and her colleagues wrote in the British Ecological Society's
Journal of Applied Ecology.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_rabbit_infestation_1
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