In 2001and 2002, Island Conservation, the Channel Islands National Park, California Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration removed invasive rats from Anacapa Island. (en.wikipedia.org)
Removing invasive rats from islands is a powerful conservation tool, and practitioners are now targeting larger islands for rat eradication. (cambridge.org)
For 150 years, hatchling Pinzón Tortoises were not surviving in the wild due to predation by invasive rats. (sciencedaily.com)