Management Game: A Short Quiz
Historically, what has been the main reason for the decline of the helmeted honeyeater?
presence of bell miners
feral cats
Ash Wednesday bushfires
egg collecting
habitat destruction
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While bell miners push out helmeted honeyeaters on a local scale, another problem is more serious.
Cats are serious predators of native wildlife. They certainly don't help, but there is an even more serious problem.
The fires in March 1983 certainly wiped out local populations, but the population was already in serious decline.
Egg collecting doesn't help, but that is not the main reason.
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