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Green Light for Lord Howe Island Restoration Project

A program to restore Lord Howe Island, home to the locally extinct, Critically Endangered Lord Howe Stick Insect has been given the green light. Island Conservation applauds the decision of the Lord Howe Island Board to proceed to the implementation stage of the Rodent Eradication Project that aims to remove all invasive rats and mice […]

Written by on September 28, 2017

Lord Howe Island Health Risk Assessment

New report outlines low levels of risk to human health from Lord Howe Island rodent eradication. Subject to final approvals, a combined ground and aerial application of rodenticide is planned for Australia’s World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island in 2018 to completely remove all invasive rats and mice. The rodents were introduced many years ago and […]

Written by on August 22, 2017

Green Parrot Saved from extinction… AGAIN!

Can this species dodge extinction once and for all? The Critically Endangered Norfolk Island Parakeet (Cyanoramphus cookii)–known to the locals as the Green Parrot–has the dubious honor of having to be rescued from the very brink of extinction not once, but twice! Found only on Australia’s Norfolk Island, north-east of Sydney, the population of this beautiful […]

Written by on June 30, 2015