Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité. Mais tu ne dois pas l'oublier, dit le renard. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
Le Petit Prince, chap. 21

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Eradication of feral cats on a forested tropical island


Methodologies developed in New Zealand for eradication of exotic mammals from temperate oceanic islands were adapted for use on a topographically complex, 194-ha, densely forested, tropical island off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Isla Isabel is a National Park and a nesting refuge for nine species of marine birds, but the island’s extraordinarily dense population of cats (113/k2) was annually killing 23–33% of nesting sooty terns.
We provide quantitative descriptions of the implementation and outcome of the methodologies over a period of three years, culminating in successful eradication of cats, but not rats. We also provide quantification of the effects of cat eradication on sooty tern mortality over a period of 11 years.

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