10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

This is how he ended up living on Nonsuch, an island on which every tree had been felled, all grass eaten by goats, which had formerly been home to a yellow fever hospital and a reform school. Wingate decided that the birds needed Bermuda’s ecology as it was 300 years ago, and he was going to create it for them.

Birds 172

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? And it is a rate of extinction that is speeding up!

Mauritius 172

Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

Humans, and the rats, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, snakes, mosquitos and disease they bring with them have wiped out species after species on islands. Often without predators, or at least without land based mammalian predators. As such they are poorly equipped to handle the introduction of invasive species.

Feral Cats 205

Feral Cats Eggs Cats Feral 205