While the cat's away: How removing an invasive species devastated a World Heritage island
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 15:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Removing an invasive species from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site, has caused environmental devastation that will cost more than A$24 million to remedy, ecologists have revealed. Writing in the new issue of the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, they warn that conservation agencies worldwide must learn important lessons from what happened on Macquarie Island.