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Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 August 1985, Unnumbered Page

Immigrant Killers by Dr Carolyn King The catastrophic devastation of New Zealand S native birds is Immigrant Killers one ofthe world' s best-known Introxduced prexlators and the conservation conservation horror stories. The ofbirds in New Zealand reason for this slaughter is largely that the predators that Carolyn King came with the settlers found a land where no ground predators had ever been known. Today, 11 per cent of the world: S rare or endangered species are from New Zealand and its outlying islands an unenviable record. What can be done to preserve what birdlife remains? Many people assume that; since stoats, weasels , ferrets and rats all prey on native birds , they should be controlled as vigorously as possible: This book calls that assumption into question and reaches some provocative conclusions. Carolyn King is a reknowned expert on the stoat and weasel in particular. She is currently working as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of New Zealand and is general editor ofa major reference work, The _ Mammals of New Zealand , to be published by OUP in 1987 . Hardback 845.00 Paperback 827.50 Oxford University Press available from all good booksellers