Why is Macquarie Island a World Heritage site

The Parks & Wildlife Service - Macquarie Island World Heritage Site

Macquarie Island's rabbit and rodent extermination program was successfully launched in April 2014. It was the world's biggest island extinction of these three endemic bird populations at once. Macquarie Island was designated a World Heritage Site on December 3, 1997 - Tasmania's second World Heritage Site.

The Macquarie Island is a place of exceptional geographical and environmental importance on a global level. It is one of the few islands in the Pacific Ocean where the wildlife of the area is able to nest. Approximately 3.5 million sea birds and 80,000 bull seal species come to Macquarie Island every year to reproduce and mate.

Peltseals begin to restore the island's population after it was almost extinct at the beginning of the nineteenth centuary. Where' s Macquarie Island? Guidebook to the 43 indigenous and 3 imported types of potted plants of Macquarie Island. Macquarie Island is part of the state of Tasmania.

There are several additional, reserved, overlapping names protecting the island and the nearby water bodies. From year to year, special management areas are designated to further conserve endangered plant and animal populations or areas that are highly susceptible to man. An eradication of rabbit, rat and mouse from Macquarie Island in 2007.

In April 2014, after a strict post-baiting surveillance programme, it was successfully established in which no rabbit, rat or mouse was discovered in almost three years after air-laying.

Travelers to the World Heritage Site

The only place on the planet where rock from the surface of the planet (6 km below the seabed ) is active above the surface..... It is located in the southwestern Pacific coast, about halfway between Australia and Antarctica. can be found on the island: Sub-Antarctic fur seals, Antarctic fur seals, New Zealand fur seals and Southern elephant seals - over 80,000 of them.

King pguins brood only on this island; king pguins, southern rock pguins and jackass pguins also brood here.