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New Zealand to wipe out every last rat (www.bbc.com)

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New Zealand plans to exterminate every last rat, mustelid and possum to save native birds. The government expects the task to be completed by 2050.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. They'll eliminate all the rats til the next cargo ship arrives.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We won't eliminate them for even a second. The government doesn't fund its conservation department enough to even eradicate all the possums (which don't arrive in cargo) let alone the rats.

New Zealand is 268,021 square kilometres (103,500 miles), the rats are all through it including the parts that are inaccessible to humans.

It's nice that they are at least trying in some places, like in the article.