SA plans biggest-ever island mouse hunt as seabirds are killed off
Preparations are underway for a mouse-eradication project on a remote island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, the biggest of its kind ever undertaken, to stop the rodents eating endangered seabirds.
“Mice feed on both adult and hatchling endangered seabirds” and are damaging the ecosystem with their burros, the institute said in its annual report on invasive species released on Friday.
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