Science The Second Pacific War... Against Rats

[Husky_Khan]

The rats evicted from paradise

Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path.

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Eliminating rats from once idyllic tropical islands so that the local ecosystem csn flourish again. A long term and intensive job that only has an 80% or so success rate.

 

[ATP]

The rats evicted from paradise

Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path.

www.bbc.com

Eliminating rats from once idyllic tropical islands so that the local ecosystem csn flourish again. A long term and intensive job that only has an 80% or so success rate.

I once saw film about succesfull method /Szczurołap - my translation,ratcatcher/
He start gave them good food, they send suicidal rats to check if there were poison - and he gave poison when they start belive him.

 

[PsihoKekec]

If Alberta can do it, then so can they.