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  • on how island is an extraordinary environment.

  • Every day here is really leading the David Attenborough documentary.

  • You walk out the front door and you just surrounded and immersed in all of that nature.

  • A tiny island 11 kilometers long and about two kilometers wide.

  • And the wildlife here is amazing.

  • We've got thousands of seabirds breeding here.

  • We've got wonderful rainforest.

  • We've got the world's most southerly coral reef.

  • Mhm.

  • Uh huh.

  • A big part of Lord Howe Island is taken up by our two Southern Mountain.

  • And because they're so tall, they actually create their own cloud.

  • The official title is the mild, mossy Cloud forest.

  • And there are only a handful of violence in the world that have such a cloud forest existing on them.

  • That cloud provides a humidity and extra rainfall for extraordinary ecosystems on the summits of the mountains.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • So the rodents had been on Lord Howe Island since 1918 and they were eating the seeds of most of the plants, including two palms, are pretty much only occur on that summit forest.

  • Mhm.

  • It took most of 2019 to carry out this project and the last live rat was found in September 2019.

  • It's very evident to the I.

  • There's a lot more fruit hanging off the traits up there and where the seeds have fallen onto the ground.

  • There's carpets of little sequence springing up everywhere.

  • The other big changes, the increase in snails and slugs.

  • So we're seeing visually great changes with the vegetation and with the slow populations.

  • Well, for me, it's a thrilling thing to see the eradication, the benefits of it.

  • And all of the island residents here are just so pleased to see the proliferation in the life and plants not just on the summit but right across the island.

  • Changes are evident to everybody living here.

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B1 cloud island forest evident summit extraordinary

Saving an Australian paradise's 'cloud forest' - BBC News

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    林宜悉 posted on 2021/03/25
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extraordinary

US /ɪkˈstrɔ:rdəneri/

UK /ɪkˈstrɔ:dnri/

  • adjective
  • Beyond what is ordinary; very unusual; remarkable
  • Extremely impressive or amazing.
  • Beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly exceptional; surpassing the usual.
  • Additional to or different from what is usual or regular.
  • Very unusual or remarkable.
environment

US /ɛnˈvaɪrənmənt, -ˈvaɪən-/

UK /ɪn'vaɪrənmənt/

  • noun
  • A set of hardware or software parameters that define the characteristics of a computer system.
  • The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.
  • Natural world in which plants and animals live
  • The people and things that are around you that affect how you behave and develop.
  • The entire surrounding conditions of something
increase

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  • noun
  • A rise in size, amount, or degree.
  • Fact of increasing; amount something grows by
  • A rise in size, amount, number, etc.
  • A rise in size, amount, number, etc.
  • A rise in strength or intensity.
  • other
  • To become or make larger or more numerous; to grow.
  • To become larger or greater in size, amount, number, etc.
  • other
  • To make larger or greater in number, size, or extent.
  • To make something larger or greater in size, amount, number, etc.
  • verb
  • To make or become larger in size or amount
  • other
  • A rise in amount, number, or degree.
  • other
  • A rise in amount, number, or degree.
exist

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UK /ɪɡ'zɪst/

  • verb
  • To be present, alive or real
  • other
  • To be real; to have objective reality or being.
  • To live, especially in very difficult conditions
  • To occur or be found
occur

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  • verb
  • To come to pass or to happen
  • other
  • To come into one's mind.
  • To come into the mind.
  • To be found to exist or appear in a particular place or situation.
  • To be found to exist; to be present.
  • To take place; to happen.
tiny

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UK /'taɪnɪ/

  • adjective
  • Very, very small
handful

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UK /'hændfʊl/

  • noun
  • an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
  • A thing requiring great effort to control, manage
sequence

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UK /'si:kwəns/

  • verb
  • To arrange in a particular order.
  • To arrange things in an order they should happen
  • noun
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  • The order of nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule or the order of amino acids in a protein.
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  • A melodic or harmonic pattern repeated at different pitch levels.
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extra

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  • Special version of a newspaper
  • adjective
  • More than necessary; additional
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  • More than what is needed; surplus.
  • adverb
  • To an exceptional degree
  • More than usually.
breed

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  • Kind of / sort of
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  • Particular kind of animal, e.g. a Labrador dog
  • verb
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  • To produce baby animals of specific kinds
  • To have (children); bring up or raise children
  • other
  • To cause something to happen or develop.
  • (of animals) to reproduce.