--- In BIRDS_@yahoogroups.com, "Dr.Syed.S. Ahmed" <akif1999@y...>
wrote:
May God bless all of you!

Gough Island - On a remote British island in the South Atlantic, one
of the world's most important seabird breeding colonies, a natural
history horror story is unfolding.

More than one million albatross, shearwater and petrel chicks, some
goose-sized and weighing almost 10kg, are being eaten alive every
year by mice.

The mice are descendants of the British house mouse, probably
brought to isolated Gough Island, south of Tristan da Cunha, by
ships in the 19th century but have grown to double the size of their
ancestors.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?
set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn20050725071708750C572339

Therefore I request every member to contact the Department of
Environmental Affairs and Tourism of Gough Island requesting them to
control mice population.Otherwise these rare birds will be extinct.

This web-page has contact details of Department of Environmental
Affairs and Tourism of Gough Island based in South Africa.

http://home.intekom.com/gough/contact.html

I hope that all of you will co-operate to end this eating of birds.

Regards,
Dr.Syed Shehzad Ahmed
MSc.(Enviro Science),MD
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