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Secrets of Marion Island: what NatGeo didn’t tell you

December 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Seabird recovery project haunted by ghosts of cats, in the form of voracious mice             CAPE TOWN––National Geographic writer Leslie Nemo omitted two of the most ecologically significant facts about the Marion Island Special Nature Reserve from her December 14,  2018 online feature “Saving a remote island’s birds—by getting rid of its mice.”              Lauding […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Population control, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Ben Dilley, Leslie Nemo, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Otto Whitehead, Peter Wolf, Ross Wanless

When the cats are away, the mice will play––and the rats & rabbits

December 8, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Purging cats from South Atlantic islands often harms birds more than helps them (Part I of a two-part series.  See also What if an island has no cats?)          LONDON,  U.K.––Fourteen years after declaring victory over feral cats on remote Ascension Island,  on behalf of sooty terns,  the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fish, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Other species, Pacific islands & other, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Ben Dilley, Clive Cookson, Henry Fountain, Jim Reynolds, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf, Sarah Knapton

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