PREDATOR PEST: One Million ‘Out of Control’ Mice, Threatening Survival of Several Sea Bird Species in South African Island, Are Set for Extermination
Mice are considered to be one of the most ‘successful’ animals in the world, and managed to get to many different places they are not native to.
Naturally, the mice ‘success’ is very often a catastrophe for other species.
It has arisen that over a million ‘out of control’ mice are wrecking havoc on the sea bird population on the small South African Marion Island, in the Indian Ocean.
The birds don’t have natural defense mechanisms against this invasive species, and may just sit there while mice eat away at them.
The rodents, that were accidentally introduced to Marion Island 200 years ago and bred wildly, are now set for complete extermination.
Sky News reported:
“Now conservationists are taking drastic action on the tiny island situated in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean,
