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Wildlife on Réunion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

François Moutou
Affiliation:
22 rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris, France.
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Réunion is probably the least well known of the islands of the Mascarene archipelago. The author, a veterinarian who spent two years working there, gives an account of its now much diminished wildlife and some of the problems facing the species that remain.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1984

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