IT’S rare that wiping out an animal population contributes to conservation, but in the case of Macquarie Island, it has saved an untold number of rare creatures. Located in the subantarctic Pacific, Macquarie used to have 300,000 rabbits, but after a culling program last decade it was finally declared pest...
IT’S rare that wiping out an animal population contributes to conservation, but in the case of Macquarie Island, it has saved an untold number of rare creatures.
Located in the subantarctic Pacific, Macquarie used to have 300,000 rabbits, but after a culling program last decade it was finally declared pest free, and has sprung back to life.
Numbers of Antarctic prions and white-headed petrels have rebounded, and the guano these species leave behind fertilises the local soil, allowing plants to grow back stronger.