SNARES ISLANDS NEED GREATER PROTECTION
The sub-antarctic Snares Islands are rat free and host four endemic bird species (tit, snipe, fernbird, crested penguin) and millions of breeding seabirds. Despite being designated a National Reserve last year, our Society considers they are still inadequately protected against the accidental escape of rats from nearby boats. The recent discovery of a Norway rat on Codfish Island adjacent to a boat anchoring areaisa disaster and highlights the need to | provide greater protection for the Snares. © The best solution would be to create a zone around the Snares from which all boats are excluded. Policing of this zone could be by the Ministry of Defence whose planes regularly overfly the island. The first steps toward this came earlier this year when the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries prohibited all crayfishing within 12 miles of the Snares without a mooring permit (issued by Lands and Survey Department). Prohibition of all mooring within this zone is the next step that Government should take.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1 May 1984, Page 38
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166SNARES ISLANDS NEED GREATER PROTECTION Forest and Bird, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1 May 1984, Page 38
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