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kleinbl00 · 940 days ago · link · · parent · post: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
Because I have always loved this story, some updates "Melbourne Zoo announced on Wednesday its world-first breeding program, set up in 2003 with just one pair of insects, had notched up 13,000 hatched eggs." (2016) "Lord Howe tree lobster officially back from dead as island pushes ahead with poison program" (2018) The rat has driven five endemic birds and 13 invertebrates to extinction since it invaded from a beached supply ship in 1918. Lord Howe Island has the "third most instagrammable lagoon in the world"The plan, passed by a six-to-one margin, will involve dropping tonnes of bait across the World Heritage island in the winter of 2018 to eradicate the black ship rat Rattus rattus and the house mouse.
