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19 May 2021
The harbour, Berlenga Grande Island
By Joana Andrade, Head of Marine Conservation, SPEA/BirdLife Portugal
When I first visited the Berlengas, a group of islands off the coast of Portugal, the state of the local biodiversity was alarming, to say the least. Foreign species that had been unintentionally introduced by humans – invasive species – such as the Hottentot Fig (
Carpobrotus edulis), Black Rats (
Rattus rattus) and European Rabbits ( ....

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