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Ridding Macquarie Island of pests pays off as seabirds come back from the brink – but recovery has just begun

  • Written by: Jeremy Bird, Research Associate, Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Tasmania
Ridding Macquarie Island of pests pays off as seabirds come back from the brink – but recovery has just begunAn Antarctic prionJJ Harrison/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

One of the largest publicly funded conservation investments in history is starting to pay off on Macquarie Island, our newly published study shows.

Sealers and whalers introduced cats, rats, rabbits and other animals to the island in the 19th century. Their impacts devastated the millions of...

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