When conservation and animal rights collide
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes. Gerald Durrell relates one story in trying to save the endemic herpetofauna of Round Island in Mauritius.
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