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Rewilding Macquarie Island

Posted onDecember 21, 2016March 26, 2018Leave a comment

There is a long list of extinct animals which were endemic to a particular island. Island endemics are particularly vulnerable to introduced predators which can rapidly eliminate a small island population. Such was the fate of Macquarie Island’s only native Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsextinction, fauna, invasive species, Macquarie Island, rewilding, Subantarctic, threatened species

The last of Macquarie Island’s rabbits

Posted onNovember 8, 2016March 8, 20181 Comment

Five years ago this month, hunters on Macquarie Island killed six rabbits. The hunters had been patrolling the Subantarctic tundra for a little over three months in the search for feral rabbits. At the time nobody knew these were the Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsinvasive species, Macquarie Island, MIPEP, rabbits, Subantarctic

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