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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. The population decline is generally blamed on habitat destruction and introduced predators, but inter-breeding may also be to blame.

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