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Fed govt plans to eliminate rats on islands

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Subject: Fed govt plans to eliminate rats on islands
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:45:11 +1000
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1603522.htm

Wednesday, March 29, 2006. 12:03pm (AEDT)

Govt plans to eliminate island rats

By environment reporter Sarah Clarke

The Federal Government has announced a plan to eradicate rats on islands around Australia.

The threat posed by rats to native plants and animals has been formally recognised under federal environment law.

The Government will now embark on an eradication plan targeting offshore islands.

Rats have had a devastating impact on some of the nation's more fragile ecosystems, and have already caused the extinction of birds on Lord Howe Island and continue to threaten reptiles on Norfolk.

Environment groups have welcomed the plan, but they now want the Federal Government to take the next step and act on a national threat abatement scheme.

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