布拉格动物园加入全球努力 拯救豪岛的昆虫 Prague Zoo joins global effort to save Lord Howe Island stick insect, once thought extinct.

布拉格动物园加入了一项国际努力,以拯救Howe岛的昆虫,这一物种曾经被认为是灭绝80多年的物种。 The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to save the Lord Howe Island stick insect, a species once considered extinct for over 80 years. 这只昆虫原生于澳大利亚附近一个偏远的群岛, 于1918年几乎被老鼠消灭。 The insect, native to a remote archipelago off Australia, was nearly wiped out by rats in 1918. 2001年,它被发现在附近的一个岛上生存,现在有六个机构,包括布拉格动物园,正在繁殖昆虫,希望在2019年老鼠被消灭后将它重新引进豪伊岛勋爵。 In 2001, it was found surviving on a nearby island, and now six institutions, including the Prague Zoo, are breeding the insect in hopes of reintroducing it to Lord Howe Island after rats were eradicated in 2019.