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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

bobf wrote:
> ***** Like this story, Bev ?
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>
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> Removing cats to protect birds backfires on island
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> Michael Casey, Ap Environmental Writer – Tue Jan 13, 9:18 am
> ETBANGKOK, Thailand –
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> It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats
> from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.
>
> But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island
> allowed the rabbit population to explode


And it is too bad that they could trap the cats and rabbits and rats and 
such and send them as food somewhere.  There are people in the world who 
would have appreciated that.