Seabirds

A warming island’s mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with “unique biodiversity.” Now conservationists are planning a mass extermination using helicopters and hundreds of … Read more

Deliver Again the Seabirds, Save the Local weather

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This story initially appeared on Inside Local weather Information and is a part of the Local weather Desk collaboration. Seabirds advanced about 60 million years in the past, as Earth’s continents drifted towards their present positions and fashionable oceans took form. They unfold throughout 1000’s of undisturbed islands within the widening seas. And as flying … Read more