DesertFox
06-08-2008, 09:21 PM
The tiny Scottish isle of Canna has successfully eradicated the island's rat population after a three-year campaign to protect the island's seabirds from the rodents, environmental officials said Saturday. ...
The rats were devouring the birds' eggs, killing their chicks and devastating many of their colonies. Some birds, like the long-winged Manx Shearwater, were almost driven from the island entirely.
In 2005, ... pest-eradication experts from New Zealand ....laid 4,388 traps out in a carefully plotted grid across the five-mile-long island, rappelling down the sides of cliffs to reach the more inaccessible areas.
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The rats were devouring the birds' eggs, killing their chicks and devastating many of their colonies. Some birds, like the long-winged Manx Shearwater, were almost driven from the island entirely.
In 2005, ... pest-eradication experts from New Zealand ....laid 4,388 traps out in a carefully plotted grid across the five-mile-long island, rappelling down the sides of cliffs to reach the more inaccessible areas.
More (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25023620/)