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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

10,000 Birds

Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. Employing long-term biosecurity protocols to prevent the reinvasion of the island by mice and rats.

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Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?

10,000 Birds

New Zealand has one of the direst records of extinction is modern times, second on really to Hawaii in terms of bird species lost. Getting rid of rabbits and goats was something that had been done for many years, but it was generally thought that rats and cats would be impossible to remove from all but the smallest islands.