The third stage of the extinction events I’ve been cataloguing here began with the settlement of New Zealand by Europeans, mainly Brits, after the...
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No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone and there ain’t no moa’ New Zealand folk song....
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“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the Pacific rat was the only factor in the extinction...
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“I will not portray islands as outstanding natural laboratories because not many of them are natural any more.” David Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of...
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“Islands are where species go to die.” David Quammen, Song of the Dodo 12,000 birds. No doubt to many readers it has a familiar...
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