Prince Edward Islands
At the beginning of the 1980s, cats brought to Marion Island, one of the Prince Edward Islands, to deal with a mouse problem in the local meteorological station, went out of growth control. Starting from the first five domestic cats introduced on the island on 1949, there were about 3,400 cats in 1977, feeding on the burrowing petrels instead of the mice, threatening to drive the birds to extinction. A cat eradication program was set up and few cats were intentionally infected with the panleukopenia virus, which reduced the number of cats to about 600 by 1982.
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