‘Not a scrap of vegetation’: The decades-long fight to bring Phillip Island back from the brink | Julie Power
was overrun by pigs, goats and rabbits introduced by British officers overseeing the penal settlement at Norfolk Island, seven kilometres of rough seas away.
They ate the reptiles, including geckos and skinks. And they felled plants and trees, robbing the island of places for seabirds like the Kermadec petrel to roost or nest. But they are equally fragile because the species that live on these islands are geographically restricted, and have limited capacity to form insurance populations elsewhere.
Mathewsoconcha grayi, which was thought to be extinct until a small population was found on Phillip Island.Hyman had been “pretty sure they had not survived” because they were last sighted at the worst of the deforestation, a few years before the last of the feral animals were shot or poisoned in 1988. When she and Kohler visited Phillip in 2020, they found only a few old and worn shells.would’ve been hard to find even in the best of times.
Professor Kris Helgen, the chief scientist of the Australian Museum, says on an island like Phillip “so much of the fauna is the really small stuff, the insects and spiders and the centipedes. That’s really what makes the forests and habitat tick.”
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