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ISLAND IS WONDERLAND FOR PENGUINS ONCE AGAIN AFTER DOG HELPS ERADICATE 300,000
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A UNESCO Natural Heritage Site has been saved from a rabbit and rat rampage, and
8 years after being declared free of invasives, the island is looking like its
old self again.
A mere speck in the vast waters that separate Australia from Antarctica,
Macquarie Island was listed by UNESCO in 1997, as there was simply nowhere else
on earth like it.
At approximately 21 miles long and 3.4 miles wide at its broadest point, the
island is the only place in the world where rocks from the earth’s mantle are
actively exposed above sea level.
Macquarie Island’s birdlife is also extraordinary, and the breeding populations
of penguins (including the endemic royal penguin), albatrosses, petrels and
prions are recognized as one of the greatest concentrations of seabirds in the
world.
However just like every other island on Earth, sailors during the 1800s brought
cats, rats, mice, and rabbits ashore which decimated the head-high endemic
vegetation and insect populations, causing knock-on effects that seriously
threatened to turn the island into a barren rock.
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Melissa Houghton was brought ashore as a dog handler with her black lab “Wags”
as part of a AU$24.6 million effort by Tasmania and Australia to eradicate the
invasive mammals from the island launched in 2007.
By Houghton’s arrival the island had already eliminated the feral cats, and seen
decreased rodent populations thanks to poison bait drops during previous
consecutive winters. Fewer numbers both of rodents and seabirds found on the
island during winter made it an ideal time to drop the poison bait, which would
also be a welcomed “food” source for the rodents during the lean times.
By 2011 hunters with teams dogs came in to work on the much-diminished
populations, but even with the success, Houghton told the Guardian that beyond
the stony beaches packed with penguins and elephant seals, the land had been
decimated—undermined by constant rabbit borrowing, while the “all-you-can-eat
buffet” of the native herbaceous tussock was trimmed down so far that slime and
lichen took hold and sloughed the limited soil down steep hills into the sea.
The last rabbit on the island – Courtesy of Melissa Houghton
“You’d have slime and lichen and landslips where albatrosses were trying to
raise chicks and survive,” Houghton said. “I couldn’t even envision what the
island was meant to look like.”
She and Wags had the honor of locating the very last rodent—an adult female
rabbit and her young, in 2014, and since then the island has rebounded
spectacularly.
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Native orchids and other plants found nowhere else are growing everywhere. The
leafy tussock which tastes like celery is now over your head, and the numbers of
insects are now very high. Most of the birds that nest there are returning, and
their poo is building nutrients and mass in the soil again. No rodent has been
seen since 2014.
Island eradication is one of the best-performing conservation strategies
employed worldwide by humans, and many islands, from Macquarie, to the
Galapagos, are now free from introduced European pests.
Indeed, Macquarie is just one of 181 islands that have since 2000 eradicated
over 800 invasive species.
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