'An Enemy of the Rabbit': The Social Context of Acclimatisation of an Immigrant Killer. (1st August 2006)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'An Enemy of the Rabbit': The Social Context of Acclimatisation of an Immigrant Killer. (1st August 2006)
- Main Title:
- 'An Enemy of the Rabbit': The Social Context of Acclimatisation of an Immigrant Killer
- Authors:
- Wells, Philippa K.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Along with useful and perhaps at times desirable introductions, the history of acclimatisation in New Zealand is riddled with examples of what have turned out to be catastrophic importations. Although some importations can be identified as driven by pragmatic reasons and justification, they can also in a philosophical sense be categorised as aspects of a 'Britain of the South'. The importation providing the focus of this paper is that of members of the family Mustelidae, specifically weasels, ferrets and stoats. These animals were introduced during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century to predate on rabbits, an introduced pest that in turn threatened the viability of the pastoral farming industry. The paper maps the historical context, the debate and the epilogue to the New Zealand decision to import an 'immigrant killer', not of rabbits but of iconic ground-nesting birds.
- Is Part Of:
- Environment and history. Volume 12:Number 3(2006:Jul.)
- Journal:
- Environment and history
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Number 3(2006:Jul.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 3 (2006)
- Year:
- 2006
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2006-0012-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 297
- Page End:
- 324
- Publication Date:
- 2006-08-01
- Subjects:
- acclimatisation -- New Zealand -- mustelids -- rabbits -- avifauna
Human ecology -- History -- Periodicals
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Periodicals
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Periodicals
304.209 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh ↗
http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EH.html ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3197/096734006778226373 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0967-3407
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- Legaldeposit
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