[APWG] NEWS: Removing species from sub-Antarctic island 'caused disaster'
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Jan 13 09:33:37 CST 2009
About animal species, but it did affect plants on the island.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090112/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityinvasiveaustralia_newsmlmmd
Removing species from sub-Antarctic island 'caused disaster'
Mon Jan 12, 12:34 pm ET
PARIS (AFP) -- Efforts to remove an invasive species from a sub-Antarctic
island that has been named a World Heritage site accidentally triggered an
environmental catastrophe, a study to be published on Tuesday says.
The eradication programme on Macquarie Island, lying halfway between
Australia and Antarctica, is a cautionary tale about the complex web of
ecosystems, its authors say.
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