New Zealand seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds
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New Zealand plans to wipe out every last rat, possum and stoat. Can the plan work?

New Zealand plans to exterminate every last rat, mustelid and possum to save native birds. The government expects the task to be completed by 2050.

  • updawg
    3•1 year ago

    One small mammal is much like another small mammal to, say, a poison

    Good news! All other small mammals (other than bats) are also invasive!

    • tal
      1•1 year ago

      Huh, I guess you’re right. I’d thought that marsupials had made it to New Zealand, but I was wrong.