Experience Humane Mauritius Wildlife 
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. The concern possessed him.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2011
The experience was to prove critical the following year when introduced rats reached crisis levels on the remaining island of the South Island Saddleback. Both species had undergone massive declines since the arrival of humans and where in a perilous position in the 1970s. It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding.
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