I have just emailed a colleague (Dr Ian Norman) who has worked on seabird
islands in Victoria and he advised me as follows with respect to the
removal of introduced mammals.
He noted that as far as he knows the list of Victorian islands where any
eradication work is undertaken is very small. Specific comments he had
are:
Gabo Island (far east coast) - some attempt to get rid of cats; dont know
how successful
Phillip Island - fox control (in a limited fashion?)
Rabbit Island (Wilsons Promontory) - removal of rabbits
Mud Island (Port Phillip Bay) - ? rabbits removed
Lady Julia Percy (off Port Fairy, w Victorian coast) - rabbit control
action; Parks Victoria haven't finished.
As you can see, to date no attempt has been made to remove rats (if there
are any) from Victorian islands
cheers
Martin O'Brien
Executive Scientific Officer, Scientific Advisory Committee
Department of Sustainability and Environment
4/250 Victoria Pde., East Melbourne 3002
Tel: 9412 4567 Fax: 9412 4586
(prefixes: Interstate 03 International 613)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
|
