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Plan underway to save seabirds from killer mice on remote South African island

Plan underway to save seabirds from killer mice on remote South African island Issued on: 21/04/2021 - 10:17 Marion Island, a remote island off the coast of South Africa, is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s breeding population of Wandering albatrosses. © Wikimedia Commons 4 min Conservationists have launched an ambitious project to save albatrosses and other threatened seabirds on a remote island off the coast of South Africa from a plague of killer mice who eat the chicks alive. At least 18 out of the 27 species of bird on Marion Island are at risk of local extinction. Advertising Read more The mice were accidentally introduced to Marion Island, more than 2,000 kilometres south-east of Cape Town, in the early 1800s by sealers who brought them ashore on boats.

Saving seabirds from killer mice on Gough Island

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Insanity Wrap #149: Is That a Mask in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Don t ask where it s been. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is there a point where the public’s right to know and the public’s desire to know could collide like one of those Extinction-Level Event asteroids into the Earth? Answer: Yes, and the only thing we’re missing is Bruce Willis. Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap. CNN gently fact checks “four false statistical claims” by Joe Biden Rahm Emanuel to go from CCP booster to ambassador to the CCP? The true threat: “Super-sized” carnivorous mice And so much more.

Endangered seabird s young being eaten by invasive mice on remote island – RSPB | East London and West Essex Guardian Series

Just one chick of endangered breed survives after mice ate them all, RSPB warns

Just one chick of endangered breed survives after mice ate them all, RSPB warns The rare seabirds on the British Overseas Territory are under threat from endangered rodents Just one chick survived Credit: RSPB Just one chick of an endangered seabird which lives on a British Overseas Territory survived after invasive mice ate them all, the RSPB has warned. A new report, produced by the bird charity and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has found that at current rates, the MacGillivray’s prion is hurtling towards extinction. The little seabird is found on Gough Island, a UK Overseas Territory island and globally important nesting site in the South Atlantic.

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