Fanal Island
| Fanal Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Mokohinau Islands | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 56 '28 " S , 175 ° 8' 48" O | |
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| surface | 73 ha | |
Fanal Island , also called Motukino Island , is the largest and most southerly island of New Zealand's Mokohinau Islands .
The 0.73 km², now uninhabited island in the Hauraki Gulf is located about 20 km northwest of Great Barrier Island , 4 kilometers southeast of Burgess Island and about 15 km east of the mouth of the Waipu River on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
Fanal Island is part of the Mokohinau Islands Nature Reserve managed by the Department of Conservation . It is also a nature reserve under the Wildlife Act 1953.
The Pacific rat ( Rattus exulans ), Polynesian kiore , had reached the island as an invasive species, presumably with the Māori between 1100 and 1800 AD and has endangered the native fauna since then. The island was also changed by slash and burn by the Māori.
In 1997, the New Zealand government started an extermination project to combat the plague of rats, as had already been done on the other islands of the archipelago in 1900. From the air were bran - bait with 20 ppm brodifacoum applied at a rate of 10 kg / ha. Despite heavy rainfall immediately after the action, the rodents were eradicated.
Web links
- CR Veitch: Eradication of Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) from Fanal Island, New Zealand. In: IUCN Species Survival Commission (ed.): Turning the Tide: The Eradication of Invasive Species. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives, 2001). IUCN Switzerland, 2002, pp. 357–359 (PDF, 5 MB).