Cull upsets island's ecological balance
A plan to clear a remote Australian island of feral cats to save the millions of rare seabirds on which they were preying has created an alarming ecological domino effect. The resulting degradation of Macquarie Island, half way between Tasmania and Antarctica, has been branded an international embar...
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Telegraph Media Group Limited
2007
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.utas.edu.au/5920/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/5920/1/cull.pdf http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1540215/Cull-upsets-islands-ecological-balance.html |
| Summary: | A plan to clear a remote Australian island of feral cats to save the millions of rare seabirds on which they were preying has created an alarming ecological domino effect. The resulting degradation of Macquarie Island, half way between Tasmania and Antarctica, has been branded an international embarrassment by scientists. |
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