In 2004, Phillip Island launched a campaign to eliminate foxes after nine of its 10 little-penguin colonies had vanished; alongside habitat restoration, the surviving colony grew from 12,000 to 40,000 birds
- Representative imagePhillip Island’s little penguins once faced a crisis that threatened to erase much of their presence from the island.
- By the 1980s, nine of its 10 penguin colonies had disappeared, while the final colony on the Summerland Peninsula was also under pressure from introduced predators, habitat loss and human activity.
- According to Phillip Island Nature Parks, a long-running conservation effort combining fox control, habitat restoration, scientific research and land rehabilitation helped reverse that decline.
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- Representative imagePhillip Island’s little penguins once faced a crisis that threatened to erase much of their presence from the island.
- By the 1980s, nine of its 10 penguin colonies had disappeared, while the final colony on the Summerland Peninsula was also under pressure from introduced predators, habitat loss and human activity.
- According to Phillip Island Nature Parks, a long-running conservation effort combining fox control, habitat restoration, scientific research and land rehabilitation helped reverse that decline.
Sources: Times of India