N Zealand goes hunting mice

N Zealand goes hunting mice

World May 25, 2016 10:51

- New Zealand is going to hunt mice and this time does not take half measures. A team of experts extermination Wednesday plucked with two boats, three helicopters and 65,500 kilograms of pesticides to end the plague on the largest of the remote Antipodes Islands by 2019. That's according to the Minister of Environment Barry Maggy desperately needed to provide birds and other wildlife living space.

Barry said that the eradication of non-native rodents, the most difficult task that has the government ever.,, The island lies in stormy sea and be lashed by Antarctic storms. It really is the end of the world. The expedition is a huge logistical challenge. The operation on antipode Island, 760 kilometers southeast of New Zealand's south island, costing 2.4 million euros.

The mice are probably imported in the nineteenth century by sealers. On the inhospitable intermediate station at the South Pole life include albatrosses and a parrot prevents nowhere else. That's the green kakariki, the smooth course parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor).
  
    
     
      
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