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Humane rat control?

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Hello, We have some big fat rats in our backyard. At night I hear things on the roof but dont know if its possums, cats, rats, who knows. Can I transport them away? They seem to know each other. They hang out in one of our trees. Ive seen 3. I think they might be taking shelter in an old decrepit shed. I dont want to kill them.

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Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi

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Someday I hope to make the long journey to Inaccessible Island, which is generally accomplished by traveling to Cape Town, South Africa and catching a ride on a boat to Tristan da Cunha and then inveigling a local into providing transportation over to Inaccessible Island.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. To understand the impulse, we need to go back to New Zealand in the Victorian era, in the early days of European settlement.

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Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014)

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Thanks to industrialization and modern transportation, the various labors required to make beer are often separated by great distances and divided by vocation. While the city brewer might contend with urban vermin like rats and pigeons, the country vintner generally enjoys the company of more charismatic wildlife.

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