10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
I’ve written at length about the specific vulnerability of insular faunas and the catastrophic extinctions caused by the arrival of rats, mice, ferrets, cats and possums (amongst others), here in New Zealand fully half the pre-human bird species were lost.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2012
The initial solution was translocation, but there were a limited amount of islands on which you could place species without mammals being a problem, and they were only very small islands. The other obvious solution was to make more predator-free islands. But while obvious this was also a much harder proposition.
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