A ‘conservation conundrum’ – when rat control to conserve one species threatens another
- Written by Victoria Florence Sperring, Research Officer, Monash University
Victoria Florence SperringWhen pest rats and mice decimate populations of native species, pest control is a no-brainer. But what if baiting rats protects threatened songbirds, while poisoning critically endangered owls?
This is a question conservation managers are grappling with on tiny Norfolk Island, some 1,300 kilometres off the east coast of...
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