<strong>Invasive species on islands:</strong> Macquarie Island, a Unesco world heritage site, was being eaten alive until an ambitious eradication programme restored it
Marion Island is a part of South Africa where few of us have ventured. Lying in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean, 2,300km southeast of Cape Town, this uninhabited island is a paradise for seabirds. That is, it was until humans arrived and inadvertently introduced a voracious predator – mice. No.
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