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Are there any updates to this story? How is the de-ratification going? A few searches did not turn up anything that seemed like a useful update.
by nathanb 12y ago
Are there any updates to this story? How is the de-ratification going? A few searches did not turn up anything that seemed like a useful update.
- ForHackernews 12y agoHere's a slightly more recent article from August 2012: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2012/08/22/lord-howe-island-stick-insects-are-going-home/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2012/08/2... It says that they've established a captive population of giant stick insects on Lord Howe, and they were planning to start eradicating rodents this year: "The plan is to eradicate the rats and mice from conservation areas on Lord Howe Island in 2015, and then reintroduce the captive-bred stick insects, and their natural predators – a sub-species of boobook owl. This AU$9 million project has just been approved last month, as announced by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke and NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker. According to the government press release, they hope to wipe out more than 130,000 rodents using poison baits, some dropped by air, in allocated conservation areas. Special ‘arks’ will be used to protect native, endangered species until the rodents are gone."