Korapuki Island in the Mercury group provides a good example of the "unseen" damage kiore continue to wreak even when they appear to coexist happily with native species. Within four years of the eradication of the rats from the island in 1986, counts of native lizards had increased more than ten-fold.
IAN McFADDEN
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Forest and Bird, Issue 279, 1 February 1996, Page 20
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53Korapuki Island in the Mercury group provides a good example of the "unseen" damage kiore continue to wreak even when they appear to coexist happily with native species. Within four years of the eradication of the rats from the island in 1986, counts of native lizards had increased more than ten-fold. IAN McFADDEN Forest and Bird, Issue 279, 1 February 1996, Page 20
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