Australia removed rats, mice and rabbits from Macquarie Island after nearly 200 years, and seabirds and native vegetation are now recovering
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Sealers and whalers introduced cats, rats, rabbits and mice to the island in the nineteenth century, and those species went on to devastate the millions of seabirds that once bred there, wiping out two native bird species entirely along the way.
Between 2011 and 2014, teams carried out what became the largest mult
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Sealers and whalers introduced cats, rats, rabbits and mice to the island in the nineteenth century, and those species went on to devastate the millions of seabirds that once bred there, wiping out two native bird species entirely along the way.
Between 2011 and 2014, teams carried out what became the largest mult