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    Details of this species in Bay Cay
    Status: Alien
    Invasiveness: Invasive
    Occurrence: Reported
    Source: Gerber, 1995 in Varnham, 2006
    Arrival Date:
    Introduction:
    Species Notes for this Location:
    A 1995 report mentions Cotton Cay and Bay Cay as being 'particularly inundated' by free-ranging or feral goats Capra hircus (Gerber, 1995 in Varnham, 2006).
    Management Notes for this Location:
    A 1995 report recommends preventing the introduction of feral animals to more islands, removing them from uninhabited islands, controlling feral animals and restricting the movement of livestock on inhabited islands, and educating the public on the destruction caused by non-natives (Gerber, 1995 in Varnham, 2006).
    Location Notes:
    Impacts:
    Threat to endangered species: Capra hircus pose a serious threat to the the native 'Critically Endangered (CR)' Turks & Caicos rock iguana (see Cyclura carinata in IUCN Red List of Threatened Species), presumably through competition for food plants, altering the vegetational composition of habitats and trampling soft substrates where iguanas burrow or nest (Alberts, 2000 in Varnham, 2006; Mitchell et al., 2002 in Varnham, 2006).
    Last Modified: 17/06/2008 9:31:09 a.m.
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