Twitter user Tanya Selak asked: So apart from reversing time and fixing the preconditions … what is the answer now? A natural solution to mouse plagues is the best way. …
Pest / disease reduction
The necklace of remote Cook Islands landforms is a renowned safe haven for yachties and a sanctuary for 100,000 seabirds birds. But the islets became overrun by unwanted guests. This …
Is calling deer an invasive pest, a self-defeating strategy?
What we call invasive species are often animals taking advantage of free energy in a system we’ve broken. The longer we don’t have any animals to suppress that free energy, …
Killing kangaroos destroys Australia’s environment. It makes no sense!
At a time when much of the world is busy rewilding, some Australia’s conservationists want to kill millions of kangaroos including Red Kangaroo, the country’s largest remaining megafauna species, an …
Pesticide use on Australia wildlife makes Plague Locust risk worse!
The ABC’s Landline program published an article last week on the rise of Plague Locusts in Australia. This forecast the possibility of the worst plagues since the 1970s. There was …
One animal is being displaced on a scale our planet has never experienced before
Climate change is exacerbating the displacement of a single animal species, on a scale our planet has never experienced before. In an interview with Bill Gates on CBS news, Gates …
For obvious reasons, there is a lot of talk at the moment about the risk of getting diseases from animals. We degrade habitats, illegally harvest wildlife and mix them with …
