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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