This is the fifth entry from my draft manuscript, working title: Spring in the Cottage Garden. You can read the first instalment by tapping below:
Conservation in Aotearoa/New Zealand is an interesting topic. It involves a lot of killing, a lot of segregation, and a fair bit of posion. Possums, rats, ferrets, and feral cats are the devil (and then there’s the highly controversial topic of banning domestic cats which comes up on a slow news day). However, we are in a unique and interesting situation: being separated by a whole lot of water meant animals, plants, and fungi had a chance to evolve with very few self-introduced species (that is, until humans started living here). In most other parts of the world a long history of human habitation combined with borders that can be easily crossed meant... The bottom line is that if something goes extinct here, chances are it’s gone for good.
I strongly agree…
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