I was reading an article on the Yahoo news that there has been a problem with invasive animal species threatening the existence of a particular type of bird on an Australian island called Macquarie island.  One of the invasive species was feral cats.  Well, the experts decided that if they killed all of the feral cats, then the birds wouldn’t be threatened.  So they killed off all of the cats.  Well, that backfired because then the rabbit population exploded and they ate up most of the vegetation that the birds needed.  So now they have a problem with rabbits.  They also apparently have a problem with mice and rats. 

So now they’ve decided to poison all of the rabbits, mice and rats by dropping poison bait all over the island, which should kill all of them.  I can’t imagine that the poison won’t also harm the birds!  I also happen to be fond of rabbits, and I hate the thought of thousands of them being poisoned!  Now, if anyone had bothered to ask me for MY advice, I would have suggested that they drop some kind of bait that would prevent rodents from reproducing, so that they would become sterile and just die of old age.  I don’t know if that would also sterilize the birds or not….. but that goes along the same vein of poisoning them!