Paradise Lost, Then Regained

摘要

A half-century ago, invaders overran Cousine Island. Feral pigs denuded the tiny outpost in the Seychelles archipelago, and alien plants ran riot. Many ecologists wrote off the island. "It was so degraded, so disturbed. It was in a very, very sad condition," says Michael Samways, an ecologist at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.