Track New Zealand’s Bid to Take Back Nature

Photo credit: Katie Peek. Article by Katie Peek. Scientific American February 2022 Issue.

A thousand years ago the islands that today form New Zealand were riotously wild. Birds, reptiles and invertebrates flourished in lush forests hundreds of miles from any other landmass. Māori settlers in the 1200s brought Polynesian rats for food, and together the humans and the rodents began to shift the ecological balance. Native species started to go extinct. […]

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