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.

  • 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.