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Cockatoo Island 2006 Plan
Based on extensive inspections and a thorough analysis of our findings we have set in motion the plan depicted as a means of controlling the pest uncovered here.
Cockatoo Island 2006 Week 1
Looking back on last week’s post I realize I have been too engrossed in Voyage of the Beagle. Nevertheless, we are seeing evidence of rats in some of the more hidden locations, no doubt a legacy of the shipbuilding that took place here for many years. It is clear that part of our final report will have to include an eradication plan.
Cockatoo staff and rangers have been extremely helpful in arranging for us to inspect every location we have requested.
First Impressions of Cockatoo
Of native animals, land-crabs and rats swarm in numbers. Whether the rat is really indigenous may well be doubted; there are two varieties as described by Mr. Waterhouse; one is of a black colour, with fine glossy fur, and lives on the grassy summit, the other is brown-coloured and less glossy, with longer hairs, and lives near the settlement on the coast. Both these varieties are one-third smaller than the common black rat (M. rattus); and they differ from it both in the colour and character of their fur, but in no other essential respect. I can hardly doubt that these rats (like the common mouse, which has also run wild) have been imported, and, as at the Galapagos, have varied from the effect of the new conditions to which they have been exposed: hence the variety on the summit of the island differs from that on the coast.
IPCS Initiates Cockatoo Inspection
Today we begin the first of our annual inspections of Cockatoo Island. I feel like Darwin stepping onto an unknown island, ready to chronicle the creatures uncovered.
Because of the public nature of this site we feel some obligation to report more widely on what we discover here than we would for a private site.
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From time to time people ask if it is OK to tip IPCS staff. While tips are not common in this industry, if you feel you have received excellent service from a pest controller please feel free to show your appreciation with an appropriate gratuity.
IPCS Lands Cockatoo Inspections Project
IPCS has won the tender to supply inspection services to Cockatoo Island on an annual basis beginning in March of 2006. The competition was extremely strident and we thank the IPCS staff who spent many hours producing the more than 200 pages of tendering documentation. In the end I think the selection committee was persuaded that the breadth of IPCS knowledge and the depth of our experience made us the most qualified for the job.
We look forward to working with the staff of Cockatoo Island and to controlling any pests that may have found refuge there.
IPCS Enters Competition for Cockatoo Inspections
IPCS is pleased to announce that it has been short-listed for the Annual Cockatoo Island Inspection Tender. The IPCS team of experts proposes to scour every nook and cranny to locate and eradicate pests.
Stan’s Online Life Day 30
Well, the month came and went without much writing. Basically, trying to live online while working offline is too much trouble.
Stan’s Online Life Day 10
Keep wanting to add to this journal, but too busy with pests.
Finally got back to a book I started years ago, Bachofen’s Mutterrecht. Seems pretty archaic now, but still has currency with the frequent articles on discoveries of ‘Venus’ or Mother Goddess figurines. I hope to get to Cynthia Eller’s book next.