Thanks for the info - Christmas Island - out of sight - out of mind
(according to the Feds)
Cheers
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie&Leanne Knight <>
To: Birding Aus <>
Date: Friday, 19 July 2002 16:51
Subject: Christmas Island Crazy Ant Control Proposal
>For those of you interested in the fate of Abbotts Boobies and other
species
>threatened by the crazy ant infestation at CI, details of the proposed
control
>program are accessible at:
>
>http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/epbc/epbc_ap.pl?name=show_document&do
cument_id=6406&proposal_id=722
>
>Summary
>The exotic, invasive yellow crazy ant Anoplolepsis gracilipes has formed
>supercolonies on Christmas Island since the mid 1990?s which are having a
range
>of devastating impacts on the ecology of the Christmas Island rainforest.
Ground
>baiting programs have proved extremely effective at killing crazy ants, but
>crazy ant super colonies are very widespread and extend over about 2500ha.
>Aerial baiting by helicopter was found to be feasible and economic with a
high
>chance of success. If successful, this operation which is planned for
September
>2002 will bring all existing crazy ant supercolonies under control.
>
><snip>
>Birding-Aus is on the Web at
>www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
>To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
>"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
>to
>
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to
|
