Australian Geographic

WHEN RODENTS RUN WILD

T SEEMS LIKE Australia can hardly get a break. First, the south-east suffers many years of drought. Then the worst bushfires on record, followed by a once-in-a-century pandemic. And when it seemed like things couldn’t get worse, we’re hit with a mouse plague likely to have cost our farming industry $1 billion in lost crops and other damage. Similar to dry spells and bushfires, mouse plagues are

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