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Rabbits make life hell for penguins, seabirds
The World Wildlife Fund warns that a population explosion of rabbits is threatening a remote Australian island’s seabird populations. That’s right, rabbits. We Americans think of them as cute,...
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Mammals 2, Birds 0
Two regrettable recent stories, each with mammals in the villain’s role: The humble mouse terrorizes seabird populations on a remote island; and Dutch shorebirds abandon a marine reserve because of...
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Scribble Updates
News roundup, starting with sort of a “Where are they now?” for past Scribble posts: The Alfred Wegener Institute’s ship Polarstern is back in port after riding along to the scene of the collapse (of...
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Take the First Annual Scribble Readers’ Poll!
Maybe the occasional Scribble Reader has wondered just who in the heck this Scribbler is. But let me tell you, that ain’t nothin’ compared to how much I wonder who the heck you guys are. But that’s the...
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Rats vs. Rotifers on New Zealand Islands
Let rats loose on an island and they don’t just scamper around eating birds’ eggs, a study reports in a recent Ecology Letters. They cut nutrient levels, make the soil nearly 100 times less acidic,...
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Hedgehogs Hog Hedgerows in Hebrides
Pudgy, snub-nosed, totally cute and only slightly prickly. Can there possibly be such a thing as too many hedgehogs? Apparently, the answer is yes, at least for small islands like the Hebrides west of...
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What’s next? Jellyfish and chips?
A swath of Namibian waters favored by fishing fleets seems to have been taken over by jellyfish – big ones, and lots of them. A new scientific survey found more than four times as much jellyfish (by...
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Urchins uber abalone
Climate change is being felt in and around Tasmania, reports the Hobart Mercury. Among the noticeable effects, ocean temperatures along Tazzie’s east coast have warmed by a full degree Centigrade since...
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I’d like a small island without so much rat in it
Invasive species are a major problem in our modern world. That’s because we’re generally happy with the way things are and less happy when some vagabonding drabcoat like a starling or a wild pig or...
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