Lord Howe boobook than both the New Zealand and Norfolk Island subspecies. The Lord Howe boobook was restricted to Lord Howe Island where it inhabited the native forests as well as occurring around the settlements. Exactly when the Lord Howe boobook became extinct is uncertain. Boobook calls were apparently heard on the island until the 1950s, but during the 1920s boobooks from near Sydney in eastern Australia had been introduced, along with barn owls and masked owls, in an unsuccessful effort to control the black rats that had overrun the island. The rats had been accidentally introduced in June 1918 with the grounding
Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. The Society publishes an academic journal, the "Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics". Until 1996, when it was combined with the "Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics", the Journal was called the "Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics". Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society is an Australian professional association. It describes itself as "independent association of persons and organisations interested in agricultural, resource and environmental economics". The Society, then called the Australian Agricultural Economics Society was founded at a conference convened in Sydney in February 1957,