The worst place on Earth to be a predatory mammal
When the British explorer Captain James Cook was first exploring the South Pacific, he told his crew that the first man to spot land would get two gallons of rum.
Imagine the thrill for a 12-year-old surgeon's boy named Nicholas as he shouted "land, ahoy!" and "discovered" New Zealand.
The Maori hunted the biggest birds to extinction and the vermin that arrived on European ships did a number on the rest.
They aim to poison or trap every invasive critter on the island -- hundreds of millions of rats and mice, weasels and stoats, possums and feral cats -- and make the entire country predator-free by 2050.
Imagine the thrill for a 12-year-old surgeon's boy named Nicholas as he shouted "land, ahoy!" and "discovered" New Zealand.
The Maori hunted the biggest birds to extinction and the vermin that arrived on European ships did a number on the rest.
They aim to poison or trap every invasive critter on the island -- hundreds of millions of rats and mice, weasels and stoats, possums and feral cats -- and make the entire country predator-free by 2050.
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