Conservation action in the Galapagos: Feral pig (Sus scrofa) eradication from Santiago Island

By F. Cruz, C. Donlan, K. Campbell, V. Carrión. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Geography, Planning and Development

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In Ecology

1. K. Campbell
2. C. Donlan
3. T. Campbell
4. D. Long
5. F. Cruz
6. V. Carrión
7. C. Lavoie
8. John J. Wiens

In Geography, Planning and Development

1. T. Campbell
2. D. Long
3. K. Campbell
4. C. Donlan
5. A. Tye

Citations in the corpus

• Feral swine damage and damage management in forested ecosystems. (2009, methodology): “Compound 1080 and warfarin have also been used to eradicate feral swine from Santiago Island in the Galápagos archipelago, Ecuador (Coblentz and Baber, 1987; Cruz et al., 2005).”
• Bio-Economics of Large-Scale Eradication of Feral Goats From Santiago Island, Galápagos (2009, background): “Cruz, CA 95060, USA 2 Present Address: Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202, USA 3 E-mail: jdonlan@advancedconservation.org Cruz et al. Eradication in the Galápagos Islands 191 ha) and pigs from Santiago Island (Campbell et al. 2004, Cruz et al. 2005).”
• Integrating Conservation and Restoration in a Changing World (2015, background): “…burning (Bocetti et al. 2012); the removal of goats and pigs from islands to permit the recovery of vegetation for threatened species (e.g., Cruz et al. 2005); or the restoration of natural, unimpeded stream flows to permit migrations of endangered salmon (e.g., Service 2011) are examples.”
• Feral Goat Eradications on Islands (2005, methodology): “Simultaneous campaigns, or the reverse or- der, would have drastically increased the costs of the eradications (Cruz et al. 2005).”
• Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. (2010, background): “In the Galápagos, feral goats, donkeys, pigs, and cattle have been eradicated or controlled on many islands, including some of the largest eradication projects for these animals in the world (Campbell et al., 2004; Campbell and Donlan, 2005; Cruz et al., 2005; Carrión et al., 2007).”
• Intensive trapping and increased fish predation cause massive population decline of an invasive crayfish (2007, unknown): “Eradication or control of invasive species has been used successfully as a restoration strategy on islands (Donlan et al., 2003; Cruz et al., 2005), in lakes (Knapp & Matthews, 1998), in marine”
• Review article: The catastrophic impact of invasive mammalian predators on birds of the UK Overseas Territories: a review and synthesis (2010, background): “The largest island hitherto cleared of rats is 11 300-ha Campbell Island (New Zealand), of cats is 29 000-ha Marion Island (South Africa), of mice is 710-ha Enderby Island (New Zealand) and of pigs is 58 465-ha Santiago (Galapagos Island, Ecuador, Cruz et al. (2005)), with maximum sizes increasing r”