ocr: So what happens on Mauritius, or indeed any island, is that when endemic vegetation or animals are destroyed for any reason, the exotic forms leap into the breach and take over. It's hard for - . an Englishman to think of something like privet as being an exotic and ferocious life form - - my grandmother has neatly trimmed privet bushes lining her front garden-l but in Vauritius it behaves like a bunch of marauding triffids.
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