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The Galapagos Islands Kiss Their Goat Problem Goodbye
Jerry Guo
Science 15 September 2006 313: 1567 [DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5793.1567] (in News Focus)

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/313/5793/1567.pdf

Read all about the succesful programme to eliminate feral goats ...


To avoid ceding hard-won breathing room
for native species, the park and research station
plan to set up a $15 million fund for ongoing
eradication efforts. In the meantime, they are
stepping up efforts against invasive plants and
gearing up for the cat-and-rat blitzkrieg.
Unless these and other unwelcome visitors go
the way of the goats, warns [Victor] Carrion, “the worst
may be yet to come.”

–JERRY GUO
Jerry Guo is a freelance writer in New Haven, Connecticut

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BBC tv starts screening a 3 part series on the islands (September 2006) and there's a book to go with it: Paul D. Stewart - Galapagos: the islands that changed the world. ISBN 0563493569 @ 18:99 GBPounds paperback

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