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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

10,000 Birds

These remote islands, some more than 1,000 miles from Honolulu, are home to huge globally-significant colonies of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross, among many others. Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. They are also disease vectors.

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