New Zealand seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds
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New Zealand plans to wipe out every last rat, possum and stoat. Can the plan work?

New Zealand plans to exterminate every last rat, mustelid and possum to save native birds. The government expects the task to be completed by 2050.

    • VoxAdActa
      21•1 year ago

      All we have to do is convince “alternative medicine” practitioners that rat tails from NZ cure baldness and make your dick grow. They’ll be as extinct as the white rhino in less than a decade.

      • ArugulaZ
        6•1 year ago

        But common animals provide no super powers when you kill and eat them!

      • Madrigal
        1•1 year ago

        Nice theory, but when populations start to run low I guarantee these fuckers will just reintroduce them. We’re not talking about people with a lot of scruples here.

    • livus
      7•1 year ago

      Yeah I think “expects” was the wrong word here. We are not on track for doing it within 100 years let alone 27.

      • keeb420
        10•1 year ago

        Yeah. They’ll eliminate all the rats til the next cargo ship arrives.

        • livus
          13•1 year ago

          We won’t eliminate them for even a second. The government doesn’t fund its conservation department enough to even eradicate all the possums (which don’t arrive in cargo) let alone the rats.

          New Zealand is 268,021 square kilometres (103,500 miles), the rats are all through it including the parts that are inaccessible to humans.

          It’s nice that they are at least trying in some places, like in the article.